| 1788.
CHAP.
XXXVIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
and council were authorised and requested to establish a public arsenal
at Frederick-town,
in Frederick county, for the reception of public arms and accoutrements,
and were authorised and requested to appoint an armourer at the same
place, and also an armourer at Talbot-town, on the eastern shore, and
to allow
them salaries: And whereas the governor and council, in virtue
of the said
powers, did appoint a certain Peter Eugles armourer at Frederick-town,
and Jeremiah
Banning armourer at Talbot-town: And whereas no provision was
made
by the said act for the payment of the salary of the said armourers,
or any other
debts to be incurred by the pubic under the powers therein given to
the governor
and council; |
Governor and
council to
draw on the
treasurer, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That the governor
and council be authorised and empowered to draw on the treasurer of
the western
or eastern shore in favour of the several persons who may have claims
against the
public for services performed under the said recited act, or may be
performed under
contracts with the governor and council in execution of the said act,
provided
the said claims be ascertained by proper vouchers, and the sum allowed
proportioned
to the services performed. |
Who shall pay
said orders,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the treasurer of the western or eastern shore shall
be and are hereby authorised and required, to pay the said orders out
of any money
not otherwise particularly appropriated, or to issue his certificates
for the
amount of the said orders, which shall be receivable by the treasurers
of either
shore in the same manner as certificates are received from persons
having claims
on the journal of accounts. |
Passed December
23. |
CHAP. XXXIX.
An ACT to provide for the collection of taxes due in Anne-Arundel
county, and for other purposes. |
W. Campbell
authorised to
collect, &c. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That William Campbell
be authorised and empowered to collect all the state taxes due in such
of the districts of Anne-Arundel county, for the year seventeen hundred
and eighty-six, as have had no collector appointed and qualified as the
law directs;
he shall also have authority to collect, in all the districts of the said
county, the fund tax for the years seventeen hundred and eighty-seven,
eighty-eight
and eighty-nine; but before the said William Campbell shall exercise any
authority hereby given, he shall enter into bond, with such security as
the governor
and council shall approve, for the faithful performance of the duties
enjoined by this act. |
By distress and
sale, &c. |
II. And be it
enacted, That the said William Campbell shall have power to
collect the said taxes by distress and sale, in the same manner as other
collectors
are empowered to collect by the act for raising supplies for the year seventeen
hundred and eighty-six; and that the said William Campbell, or other
person
or persons to be appointed under this act, shall be allowed the same commission
for collecting the said taxes that is allowed to other collectors. |
To settle with
the treasurer,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That if the said William Campbell, or the person or
persons to be appointed in case of his refusal or neglect to act, shall,
on or before
the first day of July next, settle with the treasurer of the western shore,
and pay
the whole of that part which is called the ten shilling tax, heretofore
appropriated
to congress, in specie, he or they shall, in such case, have a right and
privilege
of paying the residue of the taxes in the same manner as by the said supply
bill the people are authorised to pay the collectors; but if he or they
shall
not pay the said ten shilling tax in specie by the first day of July next,
he and
they shall, in that case, have no other right or privilege, with respect
to the
mode of payment, than other collectors. |
And collect
the fund tax,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the fund tax shall be collected from the people
by him, or the person or persons to be appointed, in the same manner as
by other |
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