| 1785.
CHAP.
LXXXIII.
Provision for
deficiency of
interest, &c. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
XXIV. WHEREAS, the general assembly did engage
to make a
provision for the punctual payment of interest on the debts due from the
public, Be it enacted, That so much
of the money collected in virtue of
this act, as may be necessary to make up any deficiency of interest which
may be due to the creditors of the state, after applying to the payment
thereof the interest received from the debtors of the state, shall be and
hereby is appropriated to pay such deficiency. |
Assessors to
take account
of inhabitants,
&c. |
XXV. And,
to ascertain the number of inhabitants in this state, Be
it
enacted, That every assessor, appointed in virtue of the act for
the valuation
of personal property within this state, before he acts, shall take
an
oath, (or affirmation) that he will diligently inquire and take a true
account
of the number of inhabitants in his district of each sex and every
age, and every master and mistress of a family, and every person having
the care of any servants or slaves, shall (when required by the assessor)
inform him of every person in his or her family, or under his care, and
on
neglect or refusal shall forfeit twenty pounds current money; and the
said assessors shall return to the commissioners of the tax of their county,
an account, signed by them, of all the inhabitants in their districts,
distinguishing
in columns the number of free males between sixteen and
fifty years of age, the number of free males under sixteen and above fifty
years of age, the number of white females between sixteen and forty years
of age, the number of white females under sixteen and above forty years
of age, the number os slaves under eight years of age, the number of slaves
between eight and fourteen years of age, the number of males slaves between
fourteen and forty-five years of age, he number of female slaves
between fourteen and thirty-six years of age, the number of male slaves
above forty-five years of age, and of female slaves above thirty-six years
of
age, and the whole number of each description, and the number of all descriptions,
and the said commissioners shall send a summary list of all the
inhabitants in their county, distinguished in columns as aforesaid,
before
the first day of September next, to the clerk of the house of delegates,
under
the penalty of twenty pounds current money on each commissioner,
in case of neglect to send such summary list as aforesaid. |
Passed March
11. |
CHAP. LXXXIV.
An ACT respecting executions
against certain public debtors. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the act, entitled, An act to establish
funds to
secure the payment of the state debt within six years, and
for the punctual payment of the annual interest thereon, it
was among other things enacted, that an indulgence should be given
to
the debtors of the state for confiscated property, (except on the bonds
appropriated
to redeem the two emissions of June seventeen hundred and
eight,) for five years from the first day of January seventeen hundred
and eighty-five, and to enforce the payment of interest due from the
debtors aforesaid annually, on the first day of September, during the said
five years, it was by the said act directed, that after six weeks notice
being
given in the manner mentioned in the said act, that executions should
issue to compel payment of the principal and interest; and it was declared
by the said act, that of of the interest paid by the debtors of the state,
the creditors of the state should be paid the annual interest due them,
to
commence on the first day of January seventeen hundred and eighty-six:
And whereas the object and intention of the said recited act was to secure
the punctual payment of annual interest from the debtors of the state,
wherewith to pay annual interest to the creditors of the state: And
whereas it may be prejudicial to many of those debtors who have not paid
the interest, to levy the principal by way of execution, and it was the |
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