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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
pounds, and, confiding in the justice and liberality of the public to
make good
the amount of the materials taken for public uses, and teh deficiencies
inevitably
occasioned during the war, have proceeded to execute the original plan,
from
which they did not think themselves at liberty to deviate, and have
carried on
the work so far as to secure the shell of the building: And whereas
it appears,
by the most accurate estimate that can now be obtained, that the materials
taken
for public uses as aforesaid, amount to teh sum of seven hundred and
forty-two
pounds fifteen shillings: |
1788.
CHAP.
XVI. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the treasurer
of the western shore pay to the said trustees, out of the first monies
that shall
come into the treasury unappropriated by law, the sum of seven hundred
and
forty-pounds fifteen shillings, with legal interest thereon from the twenty-seventh
day of May, seventeen hundred and eighty-eight. |
Treasurer to
pay trustees,
&c. |
III. And,
whereas it appears to this general assembly right and proper, that
the said trustees be empowered in a summary way to recover from all persons
who have taken any of the materials aforesaid, the value of the materials
so taken,
with damages for the detention of the same, and also to recover from any
of the
subscribers on the new subscription the balance of their subscriptions
which remain
due and unpaid, Be it enacted, That
the said trustees may file a bill in
equity against any person or persons, their agents or attornies, in the
county court
where they respectively reside, and the justices of the said courts
respectively, shall
and they are hereby authorised and required to proceed ina summary way,
at
the first court, to compel a discovery of the materials taken, and payment
of the
sum adjudged to be due, with all legal costs, and execution shall thereupon
issue,
returnable to the next court, any law limiting the jurisdiction of the
county
court notwithstanding. |
Trustees may
file a bill, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said trustees
to recover from any of the subscribers to teh said church on the new subscription,
who shall be in arrear after teh twentieth day of June next, the sum or
sums due
from him or them, in the court aforesaid, together with all legal costs,
by way
of motion to the court, provided that the person against whom such motion
shall be made hath ten days previous notice thereof; provided also, that
if the
person against whom such motion may be made, or his attorney, shall desire
a
jury to be empannelled, the court shall direct a jury to be immediately
sworn to
try whether he did assume to pay, and whether he hath paid; and it shall
be
lawful for the said court to direct judgment to be entered on the verdict
rendered
with costs, and execution shall thereupon issue, returnable to the next
court. |
And recover
of subscribers,
&c. |
CHAP. XVII.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the regulation of the
markets in Baltimore-town. |
Passed May
27. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that divers persons,
in and about Baltimore-town, make a practice of purchasing
up and engrossing the provisions coming to the said markets, and selling
teh same again, thereby enhancing the price to the great injury of the
inhabitants: |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryalnd, That whosoever shall
buy, or cause to be bought, any kind of vegetables, dead meat, poultry,
butter,
cheese, tallow, eggs or fish, in any of the markets in Baltimore-town,
or within
ten miles thereof, with an intent to sell the same again in such markets
or town,
or within two miles thereof, shall, for the first offence, forfeit the
article, or the
value thereof, so purchased, for the second offence forfeit as aforesaid
and be
fined thirty shillings current money, and for every other offence forfeit
five pounds
current money, to be recovred in a sumamry way before a magistrate; provided,
that the purchasign pork, beef and fish, by the barrel, or other package,
butter
in firkins, or other package not less than fifty pounds, bacon or cheese
by the |
Penalty on
persons buying
to sell
again, &c. |
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