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CHAP.
XXVIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
the purpose aforesaid, the said commissioners shall be governed by the
rules laid
down by the act for raising the supplies for the year seventeen hundred
and eighty-six,
on the valuation of property on which the assessment was to have been
collected
for the said year seventeen hundred and eighty-six; and the commissioners
aforesaid may, on application, make such alterations, where a change
of property
has taken place, as time and circumstances may render necessary; and
the collectors
of the said fund tax shall, instead of four, be allowed six per
cent.
for
collection. |
Passed December
17. |
CHAP. XXIX.
An ACT for the relief of the collectors of the tax for the years
seventeen hundred and eighty-three, seventeen hundred
and
eighty-four, seventeen hundred and eighty-five,
and seventeen
hundred and eighty-six. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by the
petitions of sundry collectors of the taxes for the years seventeen
hundred and eighty-three, seventeen hundred and eighty-four, seventeen
hundred and eighty-five, and seventeen hundred and eighty-six, that
though
they have made every exertion in their power for the due and faithful
discharge
of the trusts reposed in them, they have not been able to complete
their collections
by reason of the shortness of the crops in some of the above-mentioned
years, the great scarcity of circulating cash, and divers other causes
therewith
co-operating, and that suits have been commenced against all of them,
judgments
obtained, and executions issued against many of them, and their securities,
which,
if carried into effect, must inevitably ruin them and their securities;
and this
assembly, as well from motives of policy as humanity, being of opinion
that
a general relief ought to be granted, |
Times of
payment allowed,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That the several
collectors of the public taxes of this state for the years aforesaid,
be and they are
hereby allowed to discharge their respective balances by the following
payments:
That is to say, they shall pay respectively one third part of the said
balance on or
before the twentieth day of March next, one third part thereto on or
before the
twentieth day of June next, and the remaining third part on or before
the twentieth
day of August next; and that all proceedings at law be stayed and suspended
against the aforesaid collectors, they paying the costs already accrued. |
Penalty on
failure, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That if any one of the said collectors shall fail in
the
payment of the third part of the said balance first above mentioned
by the day
above limited, he and his securities shall receive no benefit from
any thing in this
act contained; and if he shall fail in the payment of the remaining
third part on the
day herein limited, or in the payment of the remaining third part on
the day
herein limited, then the suspension aforesaid shall cease, and any
farther process
may immediately issue against the collector so failing in payment,
and his securities,
for the recovery of the balance then due; provided, that nothing contained
in this act shall be construed to affect the relief granted by any
law heretofore
passed to any particular collector, or to change the regulation made
as to the collection
of the tax in Anne-Arundel county, or that of the two shillings and
six-penny
fund tax in the several counties. |
Passed December
17. |
CHAP. XXX.
An ACT for altering the time of laying the levy in Prince-George's
county. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the laying
of the levy for Prince-George's county at the June courts for said
county is found to be inconvenient: |
Levy to be
laid in September. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy in said
county shall hereafter be annually laid at the September court for the
same county,
and not at the said June court. |
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