| 1786.
CHAP.
XXXVIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
thereof, did assess ten pounds of tobacco per poll, on the parishioners
aforesaid, from year to year, for the purpose of raising a sufficient sum
to enable
them to erect said chapel, as a place of divine worship; and that workmen
were
employed by said vestry to build the same, who undertook the work, and
had
nearly completed it, when there was not money enough then ready collected
to
discharge their accounts, and the refused to complete the said building
unless
the money could be immediately paid; that thereupon the vestry, to wit,
the
revered Robert Renny, Horatio Sharpe, John Walker, Richard Jacob, junior,
John Stevens and Benjamin Fowler, borrowed the sum of fifty-four pounds
seven
shillings sterling money, from the reverend Walter Magowan, and passed
their bond to him for the payment of the sum borrowed, with interest, from
the
fifth day of December, seventeen hundred and seventy-two; that the county
court aforesaid afterwards proceeded to assess and further tax to enable
the vestry
aforesaid to discharge the debt aforesaid incurred to finish the said chapel,
and
the same was collected by William Noke, then sheriff of the said county,
and
paid by him in the month of June, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine to
the
vestry, in depreciated continental money; that they as conscientious men
did not
think themselves justifiable in making a tender thereof to the said
Walter Magowan,
in discharge of the money borrowed as aforesaid; that the said vestry
placed it in the hands of Samuel Jacob, their clerk, with directions that
it should
be loaned out on good security, but the same was not done; that the said
Walter
Magowan commenced suits against the said John Walker, Richard Jacob, Vachel
Stevens and William Pumphry, for recovery of said money so lent, and
hath obtained judgment against them; that the said vestry have now in their
possession about one hundred pounds current money, which has been received
for
the rents of the glebe of said parish, which is now without a minister;
the said
petitioners therefor pray, that the said vestry may be empowered to apply
the
said money, together with such rents as may hereafter arise, in discharge
of the
said judgment; and this general assembly thinking it reasonable and just,
that
the prayer of said petitioners should be granted; |
Vestry may
apply rents,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the vestry of
Saint Margaret's Westminster parish, or a major part of them, be, and are
hereby
authorised and empowered to apply all such monies as they now have in their
possession, or may hereafter receive for rents of the glebe of said
parish, in payment
and satisfaction of the said judgment, till the same be fully discharged;
provided,
that nothing in this act shall affect the right or claim of any person
not
herein mentioned to the said glebe, or the rents or profits of the same. |
Passed January
20. |
CHAP. XXXIX.
An ACT continuing the act to prevent the exportation of unmerchantable
tobacco, and the supplementary act thereto, and for
establishing an inspection of tobacco at George-town,
in Montgomery
county, and an inspection of tobacco in the city of
Annapolis. |
| Acts continued. |
BE it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the act of assembly
to prevent the exportation of unmerchantable tobacco, and also the supplementary
act thereto, both passed the last session of assembly, shall be and
are hereby continued one year, and until the end of the next session
of assembly
which shall happen thereafter. |
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II. And,
whereas sundry inhabitants of Montgomery, Frederick and Washington
counties, by their petition to this general assembly, have set forth,
that
there are nearly four thousand hogsheads of tobacco inspected annually
at George-town,
in Montgomery county, and that there was reason so expect the quantity
this year would be more considerable; that fifteen hundred or two thousand
hogsheads are as many as two inspectors can well attend to, and give
the necessary
dispatch to those who present tobacco for inspection; that the bulk of
the
tobacco being carried to the warehouse within a few weeks of the time
the inspection |
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