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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
CHAP. XL.
An ACT for the payment of the journal of accounts. |
1787.
Passed May
26. |
WHEREAS it appears by the journal of accounts and
list of debts of
this session, wherein is included the journal and list of debts of last
session, that there is now due from this state the sum of eleven thousand
five hundred and ninety-six pounds two shillings and one penny three farthings
current money; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the treasurer of
the western shore shall, and he is hereby authorised and required, to pay
the several
persons, their executors, administrators, assigns or orders, or to such
of them
as shall offer to receive the same, the several sums of current money allowed
to
them respectively, as they appear to be settled and ascertained by the
journal of
accounts aforesaid of this present session. |
Treasurer to
pay allowances,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That all or any of the public creditors on the journal
may have their election to receive a certificate or certificates from the
treasurer of
the western shore, signed by him, and expressing, in the whole of such
certificates,
the sum of current money due to such creditor or creditors respectively,
which certificates shall be payable to the collectors of taxes due on any
public assessment,
or in the treasurer for interest due, or composition on certificates; and
any collector may pay any such certificates into the treasury as specie,
without
any oath concerning his receipt thereof; or if any of the said certificates
shall not
be so discounted, the treasurer of the western or eastern shore shall receive
the said
certificates and pay the money due thereon to the bearer out of any money
in the
treasury, not appointed to congress; and the treasurer of the western shore
shall, on the request of any person having an allowance on the said journal,
and
not taking a certificate as aforesaid, retain in his hands, of the money
which
shall first come into the treasury, not appropriated to congress, sufficient
wherewith
to satisfy such allowance, or the balance thereof, for which a certificate
shall
not have been given, and shall pay the same to the person to whom the same
is
due, or his order. |
Creditors may
receive certificates,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the resolution of the present session, directing the
treasurer of the western shore to retain in his hands the monies (except
the two
shillings and six-penny tax, and what is appropriated to congress) which
now
are, or the firs that may come into the treasury, and apply the same to
the payment
of the allowances of the members, clerks and officers, of the general assembly,
jurymen and witnesses, shall be and is hereby repealed. |
A resolution
repealed. |
CHAP. XLI.
An ACT to empower the justices of Washington county to assess
and levy a sum of money on the property of said county
for the
purpose of finishing the prison in Washington county. |
Passed May
26. |
WHEREAS at the November session, seventeen hundred
and eighty-four,
an act passed empowering the justices of Washington county to
assess and levy the sum of one thousand pounds current money, at two
equal assessments, on the inhabitants of said county, for the purpose of
finishing
the building of their court-house and prison, and as the said sum of money
has
been assessed, collected and applied, agreeably to the said act:
And whereas the
justices and other inhabitants fo said county did, by their petition to
this general
assembly, set forth, that the sum assessed in the act aforesaid is insufficient
to
complete the said prison, and prayed that the further sum of four hundred
pounds
may be assessed for that purpose; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the justices of
Washington county be, and they are hereby authorised and required to assess
and
levy, at their next August court, a sum not exceeding four hundred pounds
current
money, with a commission of five per cent. for collecting the same,
which |
Justices to levy
money,
&c. |
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