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WILLIAM PACA, Esq; Governor.
XVI. And be it
enacted, That no wood-corder, either by himself of any
person in trust for him, shall buy, trade or barter, for any fire-wood
on the way
or brought to the said town for sale, other than for his family use and
and consumption,
under the penalty of ten shillings for for every cord so bartered, traded
for, or
purchased, contrary to this act. |
1784.
CHAP.
II.
On wood-corders
buying,
&c. |
XVII. And be
it enacted, That from and after the first day of January next,
all hay, of what kind soever, which shall be brought, by land or water,
to the
said town, and offered for sale therein, shall be weighed by the officer
so as aforesaid
appointed, with proper scales and weights, or engines to to be provided
for
that purpose (at the expence of the inhabitants and proprietors of property
in
the said town, by equal assessment, to be levied and collected as county
charges
are) if he shall be thereto required, at the choice and election of either
the purchaser
or seller of the said hay, for which trouble the said hay-weigher shall
have
and receive of the purchaser or seller of the said hay, who shall require
the same
to be weighed, the sum of five shillings for every tun or twenty gross
hundred
weight of hay, and no more, and so pro rato. |
Hay to be
weighed, &c. |
XVIII. And be
it enacted, That every weigher of hay and wood-corder respectively
shall weigh all such hay, and cord all such wood, as they shall respectively
be required to weigh and cord from time to time, when reasonably requested
thereto, under the penalty of ten shillings for every neglect or refusal. |
Penalty on
wood-corders,
&c. refusing
to cord,
&c. |
XIX. And be
it enacted, That all fines and penalties inflicted and set by this
act, shall be laid out and expended, under the direction of the justices
of the
orphans court aforesaid, in repairing the said market-house, and in keeping
the
order and repairing the said scales, weights and engines, and for the better
regulation of the said market. |
How fines are
to be laid out. |
CHAP. III.
An ACT to direct the recording a deed from John Birkhead and Anne his
wife,
to Richard Chew, of Anne-Arundel county. PR. |
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CHAP. IV.
A Bill, entitled An ACT established a road in Worcester county, from
the Sinepuxent
road, to Walton Purnell and Annanias Hodson's grist-mill,
and from
thence to Freeman's Branch.
To be laid out as a public road, twenty
feet wide, by any three of five commissioners named in the
act, who are to ascertain the damages, to be paid by the said Purnell and
Hodson to the persons through
whose lands the said road shall pass. |
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CHAP. V.
An ACT to confirm a deed of bargain and sale made by John Cannon and
Anne
Cannon his wife, to Sarah Piner, of and in the lands
and premises therein mentioned.
PR. |
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CHAP. VI.
An ACT respecting the marriage of Henry Dickinson, of Caroline county.
PR. |
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CHAP. VII.
An ACT to provide a permanent fund for the further encouragement
and establishment of Washington college. |
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WHEREAS institutions for the education of youth,
under the care and
patronage of the state, have ever been encouraged by the wisest nations,
as the most effectual means of dissemination the principles of religious
and civil liberty, private and public virtue, and those liberal arts and
sciences,
which are at once the greatest ornament of a free republic, and the surest
basis of its stability and glory: And whereas former legislatures
of this state have,
at various times, had it under their serious consideration to make lasting
provision
for the good education of their youth, and have accordingly made considerable
progress in this good work, as well by sundry laws for the establishment
of county
schools, as by the particular grant of a sum of money, to be appropriated
to
the sole purpose of erecting and endowing a college or general seminary
for the
state: And whereas, in pursuance of the act for founding a college at Chester, |
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