| 1788.
CHAP.
XXXIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
pair of oars and setting poles for the aforesaid ferry-boat, under the
penalty of ten
pounds current money for every such neglect, to be recovered before a single
magistrate, either on the eastern or western shore, at the election of
the prosecutor,
and to be applied as other fines not particularly appropriated. |
Passed December
22. |
CHAP. XXXIV.
An ACT to enable the high court of appeals to continue certain
causes therein mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS there is now depending in the high court
of appeals the
following actions, to wit, Robert Smith's lessee against John Volgamott
and Christian White, John Taylor against Richard Dallam,
and Joseph Sprigg and others against John Weems, which actions cannot be
continued, under the subsisting laws of this state, beyond the present
term; |
Judges may
continue actions. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of
the said court shall have full power and authority to continue the aforesaid
actions
until their next term, any thing in any law of this state to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
Passed December
22. |
CHAP. XXXV.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to enable the high
court of appeals to continue certain causes therein
mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS there is now depending in the high court
of appeals the
following actions, to wit; Richard Robin Reeder against William
Ward, and John Smith, junior, against Stephen Steward, junior, for
the use of John McClure, which actions were omitted to be inserted in the
act
to which this is a supplement, and cannot be continued, under the subsisting
laws of this state, beyond the present term; |
Judges may
continue actions. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of
the said court shall have full power and authority to continue the aforesaid
actions
until their next term, any thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Passed December
23. |
CHAP. XXXVI.
An Additional supplementary act to the act, entitled, An act for
the relief of the poor in the counties of Dorchester
and Somerset. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS there are several objects in Dorchester
and Somerset counties
that the trustees of the poor in said counties will not receive into
the poor-houses thereof; |
Trustees may
receive objects,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the trustees
of the poor for Dorchester and Somerset counties shall and they are
hereby directed
to receive such objects and poor persons as the justices thereof shall
direct. |
Passed December
23. |
CHAP. XXXVII.
An ACT to enable James Gittings, John Gorsuch and John Merryman,
the purchasers of confiscated lands, to obtain patents
for the same, and for other purposes therein mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS James Gittings and John Gorsuch, of Baltimore
county,
and John Merryman, of Baltimore-town, have, bu their petition to
this present general assembly, set forth, that the said petitioners, in
the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, severally purchased
of the
intendant of the revenue several parcels of leased and vacant lands, lying
in the
late proprietary reserve and manor lands in Baltimore county, adjacent
to their
respective lands; which lands, so purchased by them, they have paid for,
but as
the same lay in narrow slips round their other property, and could not
be surveyed,
(but with very great expence) except by a resurvey, including patent and
leased |
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