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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
twenty-fifth day of September, seventeen hundred and seventy, be and
is hereby
continued for seven years, and to the end of the next session of assembly
thereafter. |
1788.
CHAP.
XVIII. |
CHAP. XIX.
An ACT for the payment of the journal of accounts. |
Passed May
27. |
WHEREAS it appears by the journal of accounts and
lists of debts of
this session, that there is now due from this state the sum of three
thousand five pounds twelve shillings and four-pence current
money: |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the treasurer
of the western shore shall and he is hereby authorised and required
to pay the
several persons, their executors, administrators, assigns or orders, or
to such of
them as shall offer to receive the same, the several sums of current
money allowed
to them respectively, as they appear to be settled and ascertained by the
journal of accounts aforesaid. |
Treasurer to
pay journal of
accounts, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That all or any of the public creditors on the said
journal, may have their election to receive a certificate or certificates
from the
treasurer of the western shore, signed by him, expressing in the whole
of such
certificates the sum of current money due to such creditor or creditors
respectively,
which certificates shall be payable to the collectors of taxes due on any
public
assessment, or in the treasury for interest due, or composition on certificates,
and any collector may pay any such certificates into the treasury as specie,
without
any oath concerning his receipt thereof, or if any of the said certificates
shall not be so discounted, the treasurer of the western or eastern shore
shall receive
the said certificates, and pay the money due thereon to the bearer, out
of
any money in the treasury subject to the appropriation of the general assembly;
and the treasurer of the western shore shall, on the request of any person
having
an allowance on the said journal, and not taking a certificate as aforesaid,
retain
in his hands, of the money now in the treasury, or which shall first come
into
the treasury, sufficient wherewith to satisfy such allowance, or the
balance thereof,
for which a certificate shall not have been given, and shall pay the same
to
the person to whom the same is due, or his order. |
Creditors
may receive
certificates,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the officers of government, and members of
congress, shall have their election to receive for their salaries certificates
as aforesaid,
payable for all taxes, interest, and composition as aforesaid, and may
be
paid into the treasury by any collector without the usual oath, or if not
discounted,
the treasurer of the western or eastern shore shall receive the same, if
offered, and discharge the same certificates out of any money in the treasury,
or
which shall come into the treasury, subject to the disposition of the general
assembly. |
Officers, &c.
to have their
election, &c. |
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RESOLUTIONS assented to May Session, 1788.
RESOLVED, That the executive be requested to take
charge of and preserve
the engrossed copy of the form of government proposed for the
United States, with an annexed duplicate of the ratification of it by the
late convention of this state.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the eastern shore
be directed to pay unto
Mary Wiley, of Cæcil county, but now of Kent county, or her order,
the sum of one hundred and five pounds current money, with legal interest
thereon
from the fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred
and eighty-five.
WHEREAS the late intendant of the revenue sold several
parcels of land in
Cæcil county, formerly within the lines of the province of Pennsylvania,
which
lands, or parts thereof, the purchasers claim title to under grants from
the proprietors |
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