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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
CHAP. XXXVII
An ACT to enable the securities of Christopher Edelen, deceased,
and his administrators, to collect the balances due
to him as collector
of the taxes, and as sheriff, of Frederick county. |
1786.
Passed January
20. |
WHEREAS Thomas Beatty, sheriff of Frederick county,
hath not executed,
or undertaken to execute, any of the powers conferred on him
by the act, entitled, An act to enable the securities of Christopher
Edelen, deceased, and his administrators, to collect the balances due to
him as
collector of the taxes, and sheriff, of Frederick county, so that the balances
due
to the said Christopher Edelen as collector and sheriff aforesaid, yet
remain unpaid;
and it appearing to this general assembly just and proper that the remedy
by way of execution should be pursued for the benefit of the securities,
creditors
and representatives, of the said Christopher Edelen; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the securities, or
such of them as are or may be living, and the administrators of the said
Christopher
Edelen, are hereby empowered to appoint, in writing, a fit and proper person
to receive and collect all monies due and owing to the said Christopher
Edelen
as sheriff and collector aforesaid, under such allowance or commission
as they
may think proper and agree for, which person so appointed, shall have the
like
power and authority to receive, collect, and execute for, the arrears or
balances
due, as the said Christopher Edelen at any time had as sheriff and collector
aforesaid,
and the like power and remedy to settle with the deputies of the said Christopher
Edelen, and to compel payment of any balance due from them, as the
said
Christopher Edelen had at any time in his life-time; and the money, when
the
same shall be collected, shall be applied and paid as the said Christopher
Edelen,
on his receipt thereof, ought to have applied and pad the same, and the
balance,
if any, shall be considered as the personal estate of the said Christopher
Edelen, and
disposed of as such; and the said securities and administrators may take
such bond
and security of the person by them employed as they may think proper, and
such
person may appoint others under him, with like powers as are given to him
by
this act, to make the collection more speedy and effectual; provided, that
nothing
in this act shall discharge the said securities or administrators, and
that no greater
commission than six per cent. for collection shall be allowed
against the estate of
the said Christopher Edelen. |
Securities empowered
to
appoint a person,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That on the interest being duly paid upon the balance
due to this state from the said Christopher Edelen, no suit or process
shall issue
against the administrators or securities of the said Christopher Edelen
on his bonds,
or for the recovery of the balance due to the public from him, before the
first day
of September next. |
On payment
of interest no
suit to issue,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the said act of assembly to empower Thomas
Beatty to collect the arrearages of the taxes due to the estate of Christopher
Edelen,
late of Frederick county, deceased, as collector for the said county for
the
years therein mentioned, be and is hereby repealed. |
An act repealed. |
CHAP. XXXVIII.
An ACT to enable the vestry of Saint Margaret's Westminster parish,
in Anne-Arundel county, to appropriate the rents arising
from the glebe-lands in said parish for the purposes
therein mentioned. |
Passed January
20. |
WHEREAS John Walker, Richard Jacobs, Vachel Stevens,
administrator
of John Stevens, deceased, and William Pumphry, administrator
of Benjamin Fowler, deceased, of Anne-Arundel
county, have represented to this general assembly, that the vestry of the
parish
aforesaid, about the year seventeen hundred and seventy, applied to the
county
court of Anne-Arundel, to assess on the parishioners a quantity of
tobacco, to
enable them to build a chapel of ease in said parish; that the court, in
consequence |
Preamble. |
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