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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
seventeen hundred and eighty-two, was appointed collector of the public
assessment for the county aforesaid, and for the due execution of the
office,
entered into bond with John Wilson, junior, and Lovering Merritt, as
the
law directs: And whereas it is also represented, that the said
Thomas
Boyer, on the third day of July, in the year seventeen hundred and
eighty-two,
was appointed collector of the county rate for the said year, and
entered into bond for the execution of the trust together with William
Woodall and John Wallis, as the law directs; and that in the year
seventeen hundred and eighty-two, the said Thomas Boyer was elected
sheriff of the county aforesaid, and on the thirteenth day of November
in
the year aforesaid, entered into bond with Oliver Smith, and Richard
Peacock, for the due performance of the office; and that on the eighteenth
day of July in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, the
said Thomas Boyer was appointed collector of the county rate for that
year, and for the faithful discharge of his duty entered into bond
with
John Wilson and William Smith; that on the twenty-fifth day of November
in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, the said Thomas
Boyer entered into bond with the petitioners William Maxwell and
William Rasin, for the due execution of his office of sheriff for the
year
ensuing, as the law required; that on the eighth day of April in the
year
seventeen hundred and eighty-four, the said Thomas Boyer was appointed
collector of the said public assessment, and for due execution of the
office entered into bond with William Rasin, the petitioner, and George
Tillar; and that on the twenty-second day of July in the year seventeen
'hundred and eighty-four, the said Thomas Boyer was appointed collector
of the county tax for the ensuing year, and for the faithful discharge
of
hi duly entered into bond with the petitioner William Eason and Malachi
Ambrose: And whereas it is also represented, that on the twenty-fifth
day of October last, the said Thomas Boyer suddenly departed this life,
leaving his business as sheriff, collector of the public assessment,
and collector
of the county rate, for the years aforesaid, unfinished, and considerable
sums of money due to him in virtue of the several appointments
above mentioned, and that the petitioners, with the other securities
and
creditors of the said Thomas Boyer, are likely to be great sufferers:
Therefore the said memorialists and petitioners prayed, that a law
might
be passed, empowering them to collect the several sums of money due
to
the aforesaid Thomas Boyer in virtue of his several offices for the
years
aforesaid, in the same manner as if he had been living and his office
unexpired;
and it appearing to this general assembly that the prayer of the
said memorialists and petitioners is highly reasonable, |
1785.
CHAP.
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II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said
William Maxwell and William Rasin, and each of them, their and each
of their executors and administrators, be and are hereby fully authorised
and empowered to take, demand, collect and receive, the residue of the
public assessments, taxes, dues, fees and demands, and all and every sum
and sums of money, or quantity of tobacco, due to the said Thomas
Boyer in virtue of his several offices of sheriff, collector of the public
assessment, or county rate, for the years aforesaid, by distress and sale,
or
otherwise, in as full and ample manner as the said Thomas Boyer could
have done was he now living and his several offices unexpired. |
W. Maxwell,
and W. Rasin
empowered to
collect, &c. |
III. And,
whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by the
petition of John Rolph and Benjamin Hatchinson, that on the ninth day of
February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five, they entered into
bond with the aforesaid Thomas Boyer, for the faithful discharge of his
office of sheriff for that year, and that for the reasons above mentioned,
the said Thomas Boyer hath not finished the business of his said office,
large
sums of money being due to him in virtue of his office of sheriff, for |
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