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CHAP.
LXXXV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
chargeable with all the expences of shipping, freight and insurance,
of
such tobacco, or if the arbitrators determine that money is due, then the
proceeds of the said tobacco to be applied to discharge the same; and the
governor and the council are hereby authorised and requested to draw as
much money from the treasury (out of the money not appropriated) as
may be necessary to make the said purchase. |
Proposal to
extend the
loan, &c. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That it is hereby proposed by the general assembly
to Messieurs Vanstaphorsts, to extend the loan to a capital equal to the
amount of the value of one hundred thousand pounds sterling, including
the
amount of the money already lent, for seven years from the commencement
of the loan, on an interest of six per cent. payable annually in the
month of November, in the city of Amsterdam, during the time of the
loan, or until the principal be discharged with the term aforesaid; and
in case the Messieurs Vanstaphorsts will, before the first day of October
next, undertake to extend the loan, that the governor and the council be
authorised and requested to give them full power, on behalf of this state,
to sign, execute and issue, the proper number of bonds, or other writings,
to the lenders. |
Passed March
11. |
CHAP. LXXXVI.
An ACT to make valid the proceedings of the vestry of Saint
Peter's parish in Talbot county, and for other purposes
therein mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, on Easter Monday last the vestrymen and
inhabitants
of Saint Peter's parish aforesaid, neglected to meet at
their parish church and choose two vestrymen and two church-wardens
agreeable to law; therefore, |
Proceedings
made good,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the proceedings
of the vestry of Saint Peter's parish, since Easter Monday last,
shall be as good and valid in law, as if the vestrymen, and other inhabitants
of said parish, had met and made their election on that day as directed
by the act, entitled, An act for the establishment of select vestries. |
Vestrymen,
&c. to meet.
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the vestrymen and inhabitants of the parish
aforesaid, are hereby authorised and empowered to meet at their
parish church on Easter Monday next, and choose two vestrymen and two
churchwardens, in the same manner and form they were to have done on
Easter Monday last, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Passed March
11. |
CHAP. LXXXVII.
An ACT concerning jurisdiction. |
Suits may be
commenced,
&c. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That any person,
after the end of this session of assembly, shall have full power to
commence, prosecute, and carry on to final judgment, in the
county court of the county where the defendant or defendants may reside,
any action or suit at law whatsoever, whether the same be for recovery
of
any debt or damages, or of the right or possession to or of any lands,
tenements
or hereditaments, or of goods and chattels, by writ of replevin;
and the several and respective county courts shall have full power and
authority
to hear and determine all such suits and actions. |
No action to
be brought in
the general
court, &c. |
II. And be it
enacted, That no action of trespass for injury done to the
person or personal property of the plaintiff, replevin, debt, covenant,
account,
or on the case, shall be brought in the general court, unless the |
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