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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
CHAP. XXXI.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to authorise the county
courts to impose an assessment to defray their county
charges. |
1787.
Passed December
17.
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WHEREAS by the said act it is directed, that the
person or persons
appointed to collect the public assessment in their county shall collect
the rate to be assessed by the justices of the same county to defray the
county charges: And whereas it may so happen, that in some years
no person or
persons may be appointed to collect the aforesaid public assessment, and
the power
of the justices in such case is questioned under the same act to appoint
a collector
of such rate to defray the county charges aforesaid: |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That if no appointment
shall be made of a collector or collectors in any year of the public
assessment, within three weeks after the laying of the county rate, the
justices of
the county courts respectively, shall and they are hereby authorised to
appoint
the sheriff, or some other fit and proper person of their county, to collect
the
rate aforesaid to defray the said county charges, who is hereby directed
to collect
the same under the penalty of fifty pounds current money for every refusal
or
neglect, and shall be entitled to receive for the same a compensation of
six per
centum on the said collection in lieu of the four per cent. by
the aforesaid act
directed. |
If no appointment
shall be made,
justices may
appoint, &c. |
CHAP. XXXI.
An ACT for the further relief of Joseph Cresap, of Washington
county. |
Passed December
17. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That a patent shall
be issued by the register of the land-office to Joseph Cresap, of Washington
county, for a tract of land called Prather's Defeat, according to an
act of assembly, entitled, An act for the relief of Joseph Cresap, of Washington
county, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-four,
any thing
contained in an act of assembly of the said session, entitled, An act to
authorise
the issuing grants for the lands therein mentioned, to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Patent shall
issue, &c. |
CHAP. XXXIII.
An ACT to repeal the act respecting the loan made by this state
with Messieurs Nicholas and Jacob Vanstaphorst, of Amsterdam,
merchants. |
Passed December
17. |
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that
the act respecting
the loan made by this state with Messieurs Nicholas and Jacob Vanstaphorst,
of Amsterdam, merchants, and also one other act, entitled,
An act to procure a permanent fund for the debt due from this state to
Messieurs Vanstaphorst, were made and passed under an opinion that the
state
was indebted to Messieurs Vanstaphorst for loan negotiated by them with
Matthew
Ridley, agent for this state, and that the several proposals to them respecting
the said loan were made under that impression; and it appearing to this
general
assembly, that the contract made by Mr. Ridley, agent for this state, with
the Messieurs Vanstaphorst, for the delivery of tobacco at the price and
at the
places within this state as stipulated, has no connexion with, or relation
to, the
loan; that the said Nicholas and Jacob Vanstaphorst neither made the said
loan, or were in any manner answerable for the payment of principal or
interest
thereof; and that the proposal made to the Messieurs Vanstaphorst by Mr.
Forrest
was very liberal, and their demands for damages are most extravagant, and
the principles, which they will not relinquish, for ascertaining their
damages,
are by no means proper or admissible: |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said act
respecting the loan made by this state with Messieurs Nicholas and Jacob
Vanstaphorst.
of Amsterdam, merchants, be and is hereby repealed. |
An act repealed. |
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