| 1769. |
FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
A sum not exceeding £. 7,500
sterling, is to be applied to the building a new stadt-house, at Annapolis,
and to the enlarging, repairing and enclosing, the parade.
This house is to contain two rooms for
the upper and lower houses of assembly, a room for the
provincial court, two jury rooms, four committee
rooms, and repositories for the records of the two houses,
of the court of chancery, the court of appeals,
the provincial court, the prerogative court, and the
land-office. The parade is to be laid with stone or
gravel, and enclosed with iron palisadoes, to be fixed
on a good stone or brick wall; and the expence of
all this is not to exceed £. 500 sterling.
The building is to be superintended
by Daniel Dulany, Thomas Johnson, John Hall, William Paca,
Charles Carroll, barrister, Lancelot Jacques, and Charles
Wallace, the major part of whom is empowered
to contract with workmen and to purchase materials.
And to enable them to do this, they are authorised
to draw on Charles Hammond, treasurer of the western
shore, or his executors or administrators,
on Edward Lloyd, the late treasurer of the eastern shore,
or his representatives, and the representatives of
James Holliday, and Beddingfield Hands, late treasurers
of the eastern shore, for all monies which these
persons may have at the time of the draught subject to
the orders of the general assembly, including the
money received under the act for licensing ordinary keepers,
&c. and if the money in the hands of such
persons shall be insufficient, the balance is to be supplied
by the commissioners out of the bills of credit.
The superintendents are, from time to time, to lay fair
accounts of their expenditures before the assembly.
They are to cause the present stadt-house to be immediately
demolished, and the materials either to
be applied to the new building, or sold, at their discretion.
And until the new stadt-house shall be completed,
they are directed to procure convenient rooms for the
public offices, and for the depositories of
records.
Upon completion of the work, the house
in which the council usually sits, and the conference chamber,
are to be vested in the justices of Anne-Arundel county.
The county and the mayor's courts are to be
held in the house, and the county records are to be kept
in the chamber. And a quantity, not exceeding
45,000lb. of tobacco, is to be assessed in November,
1771, for the purpose of fitting the said building
agreeably to certain directions, and for roughcasting
the walls of the house, and the walls of King William's
school. |
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CHAP. XV.
A Supplementary ACT to the act, entitled, An Act for the direction
of sheriffs in their offices, and restraining their
ill practices
within this province. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the said act it was, among other things,
enacted, that no
sheriff or sub-sheriff within this province, after the publication
thereof
in their several and respective counties wherein they dwell, should
take
any bond, bill, or any other writing obligatory, of any person or persons,
upon
any pretence whatsoever, without endorsing the account on the back
of the said
bond, bill, or writing obligatory, for which the same was past; and
that if any
sheriff or sub-sheriff within this province should, during the time
that he remained
in his place or office, upon any pretence whatsoever, take any bill,
bond, or
writing obligatory, without endorsing the account on the back side
of the said bill,
bond, or writing obligatory, as aforesaid, by which it might appear
upon what
consideration the same was taken, the said bond, bill, or writing obligatory,
should
be void and of no effect, and the officer or officers that took the
same should lose
his debt, and for ever be debarred of suing any other action for the
recovery of the
same. And whereas it is found by experience, that the said provision
hath been
often eluded by sheriffs and under-sheriffs, their taking promissory
notes and other
written securities for fees by them illegally charged, without endorsing
on such
notes the account for which the sum mentioned in such notes became
due, which
hath been understood not to be within the provision of the said act
above recited,
to the great damage and injury of many of the good people of this province.
For
remedy whereof, |
Sheriffs, takeing
any mortgage,
&c.
without endorsing
thereon
the account
for which the
same was
taken, the
same to be
void, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the right honourable the lord proprietary, by and with the
advice and consent of his lordship's governor, and the upper and
lower houses of assembly,
and the authority of the same, That no sheriff or sub-sheriff
within this province,
after the first day of February next, shall take any mortgage, promissory
note, or inland bill of exchange whatever, of any person or persons,
upon any pretence
whatsoever, without endorsing the account on such mortgage, promissory
note or bill of exchange, for which the same was passed. And
if any sheriff or sub-sheriff
within this province shall, after the said first day of February next,
during
the time that he shall remain in his said office, upon any pretence
whatsoever,
take any mortgage, promissory note, or inland bill of exchange, without
endorsing
the account on such mortgage, note, or bill of exchange, by which it
may appear
for what consideration the same was taken, the said mortgage, note,
or bill of exchange,
shall be void and of no effect, and the officer or officers that took
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