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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
the said deed, when so recorded, shall be as valid and effectual to
transfer and
convey the houses, lot, and portion of ground aforesaid, from the said
John Slater
to the said Martin Slack, as if the same had been recorded within the
time limited
by law, any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding:
Provided
always, that the aforesaid deed, although recorded as by this act directed,
shall not destroy, or in any manner affect, the title of any purchasers
of the
houses, lot, and portion of ground aforesaid, in case of a purchase made
after the
date of the said deed, and without notice of such deed, nor in any manner
affect
the creditors of the aforesaid John Slater, who have become so after the
date
of the said deed. |
1787.
CHAP.
XIII. |
CHAP. XIV.
An ACT for the relief of William Stewart, of Somerset
county. |
Passed December
16. |
WHEREAS William Stewart, of Somerset county, by
his humble petition
to this general assembly, has set forth, that he was appointed
inspector of tobacco at Green-hill warehouse, in the said county, on
the sixteenth day of June, seventeen hundred and eighty-six; that he qualified
and gave security agreeably to law; and that on the first of October, in
the same
year, the said warehouse was feloniously broke open, and two hogsheads
of tobacco
taken out; that he stands indebted for the said two hogsheads of tobacco,
netting two thousand two hundred and sixty-two pounds; that the justices
of
said county appear willing to give him relief by assessing the loss on
the county,
if they had power; and praying that a law might pass for that purpose: |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of
Somerset county are hereby authorised and empowered, at their next county
court
to be held for the purpose of laying the county assessment, to impose by
assessment
on the said county, in the same manner that all county charges are levied,
a sum of money not exceeding the value of the said two hogsheads of tobacco,
with the expences of collection, and the sum so levied shall be paid by
the sheriff
or collector for the time being to the said William Stewart, his heirs,
executors,
administrators or assigns. |
Justices to
assess money,
&c. |
CHAP. XV.
An ACT for the relief of the securities of John Hayman Nichols,
collector of the tax for Montgomery county. |
Passed December
16. |
WHEREAS Henry Brookes, by his petition to this general
assembly,
hath set forth, that he, together with James Sutor, Leonard Davis,
William Fee and Zadock Dickerson, became security for John Hayman
Nichols as collector for Montgomery county for the year seventeen hundred
and eighty-four, on whose collection there is a balance due to the public
of about
one thousand nine hundred pounds, for which a fieri facias issued
against the property
of the said Nichols and his said securities; that on the said fieri
facias, the
property of the said Nichols, and of all his securities aforesaid, except
Leonard
Davis, was taken, to the value of near five thousand pounds, but that none
of the
said property has been sold, although process has issued for that purpose,
except
five hundred acres of land of James Sutor; that Robert Peter, John Murdock,
William Deakins, junior, Bernard Oneale, Edward Burgess, Walter Smith and
Richard Thompson, became counter securities to the petitioner, and the
other
original securities, and are ultimately answerable to them, but that it
will be to
the ruin of the said original securities, who are unable to advance the
money, to
have their property sold at this time, although they may afterwards recur
to the
counter securities; that the said John Hayman Nichols hath surrendered
his books
and papers to the said counter securities, on which, though there can be
no reliance
on their accuracy, there appears to be a balance due from the people of
about
two thousand eight hundred pounds; and prayed that an act may pass, transfering
the collection of the said arrears to the said counter securities,
giving them
an indulgence till the year seventeen hundred and ninety, upon their
entering
into bond to the state, with undoubted security, for the payment of the
said balance |
Preamble. |
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