| 1787.
CHAP.
XXII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
corporate, and it appearing proper that the authority given by the same
act to
the county courts aforesaid should be extended to land held as well by
any body
politic and corporate as otherwise: |
Courts may
issue commissions,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the respective
county courts within this state shall have jurisdiction, authority and
power, under
the limitations and directions in the aforesaid act prescribed, upon application
as
therein mentioned, to issue commissions to mark and bound lands held as
well by
bodies politic and corporate as others, any thing in the aforesaid act
to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
Passed December
16. |
CHAP. XXIII.
A Supplement to the act for the liquidation and payment of debts
against persons convicted of treason. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS doubts have arisen on the construction of
the above mentioned
act, whether the same doth extend to claims of persons being
citizens of some other of the United States against persons convicted
and attainted of treason; and it is though reasonable, that the remedy
given by
said act ought to be declared to extend to all such claims as are herein
last
mentioned: |
Persons may
lay their
claims before
the auditor,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, and it is hereby declared,
That every person, being a citizen of any other of the United States
at the time
of the passing of the original act, having any account, debt, claim or
demand,
which accrued before the passing of the original act to which this
is a supplement,
against any citizen of this state convicted and attainted of treason, and
whose property has been, or hereafter may be, sold by virtue of the act
to dispose
of certain confiscated British and forfeited property, may lay his account,
debt,
claim or demand, before the auditor-general, who is hereby empowered and
directed
to liquidate and adjust the same, and the balance, if any by him is thought
to be justly due, shall be signed by the auditor, and, being passed by
the governor
and council, may be delivered by the claimant to the treasurer of the
western
shore, who is hereby directed to assign him any bond or bonds taken for
the sale
of the particular estate of which he is a creditor, that may be lodged
in the treasury,
to the amount of such balance so found due as aforesaid, or credit
may be
given on any such bond or bond, if desired by the creditor aforesaid, by
writing
under his or her hand and seal, directed to the treasurer of the western
shore. |
Passed December
16. |
CHAP. XXIV.
An ACT to establish a road from the town of Talbot, in Talbot
county, to Cow Landing on Third-haven creek, in the
county aforesaid. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this legislature, by
the petition of a
great number of the inhabitants of Talbot county, that the town
of Talbot is become a place of considerable trade, and would be
more likely to flourish, if there was a convenient road from the said town
to
navigable water; that the present landing place is at the distance of three
miles
from the said town, at a place called Miles river ferry, and the road to
the same
is frequently in bad condition; that there is a very convenient landing
place at
the distance of near three quarters of a mile from the said town, at a
point of
land on Third-haven creek, called Cow Landing, where the water is navigable
for vessels of large burthen, but no public road can be had to the same
by reason
of some enclosed lands lying between the said town and the said landing,
and
part of the said land is the property of a certain Robins Chamberlain,
a minor,
and part the estate of the heirs of Lambert Bokker, who are also minors;
and the prayer of the said petition appearing reasonable, |
Persons appointed
to lay
out a road,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Jeremiah Banning,
James Thomas, Howes Goldsborough, James Benson and William Maynadier,
or any three of them, shall be and are hereby authorised and directed to |
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