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CHAP.
XXXIX. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
person interested in the cutting the said canal, shall, before the same
is begun,
enter his or her name as a proprietor or person interested, in a list of
such persons
to be kept by the commissioners of Baltimore-town, which list, when
completed, shall be by the said commissioners returned to the clerk of
Baltimore
county court, by him to be recorded. |
Commissioners
allowance,
&c. |
VIII. And be
it enacted, That the commissioners of the said town shall be
allowed, for their trouble in causing the said town to be generally and
correctly
surveyed, and the bounds thereof perpetuated and established, the sum of
seven
shillings and six-pence current money per day each, for each and every
day the
said commissioners shall be employed in the exercise thereof; and they
are also
hereby empowered and directed to hire a clerk, to enter up all their proceedings,
from time to time, fairly on record, for such salary as they may think
proper to
give, not exceeding fifty pounds current money per annum. |
Part of street
tax appropriated,
&c. |
IX. And be it
enacted, That such part of the street tax as shall be sufficient
for the purpose, be appropriated by the commissioners of Baltimore-town
to
defray the expences incurred in the execution of this act, and the said
commissioners
are hereby empowered to draw on the collector of the said tax for the
amount thereof. |
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CHAP. XL.
An ACT to authorise the vestry and churchwardens of Coventry parish
to receive
the money therein mentioned.
They are authorised to demand, and
if refused or delayed, to sue for and recover, all monies and
tobacco collected by the collectors of Worcester and Somerset, in virtue
of the act of 1774, ch. 19,
and to apply the same to the use of their parish. |
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CHAP. XLI.
An ACT for the benefit of
Eleanor and Charlotte Frazer. PR. |
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CHAP. XLII.
An ACT to enable the justices of Frederick county court for the time
being,
to assess on the inhabitants of the said county a sum
of money for the uses
therein mentioned.
They are authorised by two equal assessments,
at March and August courts, in 1785, to levy the sum
of £. 2000, to be applied in building a new court-house and gaol,
in Frederick-town: And, to do this
they shall employ workmen, and take from the security in double the sum.
And for the said buildings
they may make use of all the materials that are proper, belonging to the
court-house and gaol. The
residue of the said materials they are to sell; and the money arising from
the sale is to be applied in the
same way. |
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CHAP. XLIII.
An ACT to authorise and empower the securities of Thomas Williams,
deceased,
late collector of the tax and public dues in Prince-George's
county,
to complete the same. PR. |
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CHAP. XLIV.
An ACT to enable James Hunt to convey to William Deakins, junior, a
lot of
ground called Church of Scotland Lot, in exchange for
other land. PR. |
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CHAP. XLV.
An ACT for an addition to George-town in Montgomery
county. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS Robert Peters, William Deakins, junior,
Charles Beatty,
and John Threlkeld, of George-town, by their humble petition to
this general assembly have set forth, that they have agreed to lay out,
as an addition to George-town, twenty acres and eighteen thirty-seconds
of an
acre of ground, being part of the following tracts of land, to wit, one
acre and
twenty-six thirty-seconds of an acre, part of a tract of land called Frogland,
the
property of the aforesaid Charles Beatty, two acres and one thirty-second
of an
acre, part of a tract of land called Discovery, the property of the aforesaid
Robert
Peters, thirteen acres and twenty-nine thirty-seconds of an acre, part
of a
tract of land called Conjuror's Disappointment, the property of the aforesaid
William Deakins, junior, and three acres twenty-six thirty-seconds of an
acre, |
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