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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
eighty-five, and if deficient, out of the supplies for the year seventeen
hundred
and eighty-six. |
1785.
CHAP.
LXXIV. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That each delegate to congress from this state
shall be allowed three pounds current money per day for every day he shall
attend, or be on his journey to or from congress, in full satisfaction
for all
expences, and this allowance shall be constantly paid out of any public
money in the treasury, not specially appropriated to other purposes; and
it is expected by the general assembly, that nor more than three of
the
delegates appointed for the next year will attend at the same time
in
congress. |
Allowance to
delegates to
congress, &c. |
CHAP. LXXV.
An ACT for the erecting light-houses upon Chesapeake bay
and Patowmack river. |
Passed March
11. |
WHEREAS the building, supporting and maintaining,
a good,
substantial, large, and lofty light-house, with a light or lights
therein, continually burning in the night time, on Cape
Henry, is absolutely necessary, and will be of great use and benefit to
the
navigation of all vessels bound into or out of the capes of Chesapeake
bay,
and such light-house ought to be erected as soon as possible: And
whereas
it will be also necessary, immediately after building the said light-house,
to place and fix buoys in the waters of the said bay, and to erect and
set
up on the shores and uplands thereof beacons and bay marks: And whereas,
for the further security of the navigation within the said bay and the
river Patowmack, it will also be necessary hereafter to build a light-house
on New-point-comfort, and another light-house on Smith's-point, at the
mouth of Patowmack river, and to place and fix buoys in the waters of
the said river, and to erect on the shores and uplands thereof beacons
and
river marks: And whereas, by the compact lately made by the commissioners
of the commonwealth of Virginia and the commissioners of this
state, (which compact hath been ratified and confirmed by the general
assemblies of both governments,) it was agreed, " That light-houses, beacons,
buoys, or other necessary signals, should be erected, fixed and maintained,
upon Chesapeake bay, between the sea and the mouths of the rivers
Patowmack and Pocomoke, and upon the river Patowmack, at the expence
of both states; if upon Patowmack river at the joint and equal charge of
both states, and if upon the said part of Chesapeake bay, Virginia to defray
five parts and Maryland three parts of such expence; and if this expence
should in future times be found unequal, that the same should be
corrected:" And whereas this general assembly are desirous to provide
a
fund, as soon as possible, to defray the proportion of this state for the
purposes aforesaid agreeably to the said compact; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the master
or commander of every vessel sailing through the capes of Chesapeake bay
to this state, and entering in any port thereof, or clearing from any port
of this state and failing through the said capes, and owned by any citizen
of this or any of the United States, or by any subject or citizen of any
kingdom or state in peace and amity with the United States and this
state, and with which kingdom or state and the United States a treaty of
commerce hath already been made, or shall hereafter be made, shall, at
the time of entering or clearing respectively, pay to the naval-officer
the
duty of six-pence current money for every ton such vessel shall measure,
agreeably to the directions of the laws of this state, and double that
sum
shall be paid by every vessel having a foreign register, or owned in the
whole or in part by any subject or citizen of any kingdom or state with
which a treaty of commerce hath not already been made, or shall not |
Six-pence per
ton to be paid
at entering or
clearing, &c. |
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