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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
CHAP. XLII.
An ACT to appoint a commissioner to settle the account of this
state with the United States. |
1786.
Passed January
20. |
WHEREAS congress, by their ordinance of the thirteenth
day of October,
seventeen hundred and eighty-six, have established a board to
liquidate and settle all account between the United States and individual
states: And whereas claims of this state against the United States,
to a very
considerable amount, remain unliquidated, and the said bond having withdrawn
the continental commissioner of accounts for this state; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That John White be,
and he is hereby appointed, commissioner for this state, to attend the
said board
for the purpose of settling all accounts between this state and the United
States. |
A commissioner
appointed. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioner shall state the claims of
this state against the United States, and lay them before the said
board for the
purpose of liquidation and settlement, and shall report to the house of
delegates,
at their annual meeting, the progress made therein; and to enable the said
commissioner
to proceed properly in the premises, he shall have free access to all the
books of accounts, papers and vouchers, belonging to this state; and the
auditor-general
is hereby required to give every assistance in his power towards forwarding
the said settlement. |
When shall
settle claims,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That to enable the said board, or any person or persons
commissioned by them, to call before them witnesses respectively for the
purpose of establishing or controverting any claim or claims where the
vouchers
have been lost, or never obtained, the said board, or any person or persons
by
them commissioned, shall have full power, within this state, to examine
such
witnesses on oath or affirmation, in all matters touching the claims exhibited
to
the said board, the said examination to be made in the presence of
the said commissioner,
or some person by him appointed to attend. |
Board may
examine witnesses,
&c. |
V. And be it
enacted, That the said commissioner, for his trouble and expences
in the said settlement, and in full compensation for all services under
this
act, shall receive at the rate of ninety dollars per month; and the said
commissioner
may employ a clerk to assist him in preparing and arranging the accounts,
papers and vouchers, necessary for such settlement, and such clerk shall
be allowed
at the rate of thirty dollars per month; and the allowance to the said
commissioner and his clerk, shall be paid quarterly out of any public money
in
the treasury, not appropriated by law. |
Allowance to
commissioner,
&c. |
CHAP. XLIII.
An ACT respecting apprentices. |
Passed January
20. |
WHEREAS it would much conduce to the good of poor
children in
general, and especially orphans and illegitimate children, that by an
efficient system they should be relieved from immediate want, and
that the necessary instruction in trades and useful arts should be afforded
them,
so that they might be enabled with industry to advance themselves; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the justices of
the several and respective county courts, shall and may bind out every
orphan
child, not having or being entitled to real or personal property, the profits
or
increase whereof is or are not sufficient for his or her maintenance,
support and
education, as an apprentice to some mariner, handicraftsman, or other person,
at
the discretion of the said justices, until such orphan child, if a male,
shall arrive
to twenty-one years of age, or if a female to sixteen years of age; and
the
said justices are hereby directed in all cases where they can, to make
it a part of
the contract on the part of the master, that he shall give such orphan
child reasonable
education in writing and reading, or writing, reading and arithmetic, to
be particularized, and also to teach such orphan, especially if a male,
some useful |
Justices may
bind out orphans,
&c. |
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