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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esq; Governor.
Chase, and the said Thomas and John Dorsey, in partnership, and to the
said
Samuel Chase, and the said Thomas and John Dorsey and Luke Wheeler,
in
partnership, and also of all the right and title of the said Samuel Chase,
in law
and equity, to the private property of the said Samuel Chase, mentioned
and
described in the above memorial, that thereupon, and for ever thereafter,
the said
Samuel Chase shall, by virtue of this act, be acquitted and discharged
from all
debts heretofore due, or contracted by the said Samuel Chase, and the said
John
and Thomas Dorsey, in co-partnership, and from all debts due or contracted
by
the said Samuel Chase, and the said Thomas Dorsey and John Dorsey and Luke
Wheeler, in co-partnership, and from all debts, promises, covenants,
contracts
or agreements, heretofore due, contracted, entered into, or made by the
said
Samuel Chase, with the said John and Thomas Dorsey, or either of them,
or
with the said John and Thomas Dorsey and Luke Wheeler or either of them,
on account of either of the said partnerships, or by the said Samuel Chase
on
account of either of the said partnerships; provided always, that if the
debts,
contracts and agreements, of the said two co-partnerships, be not otherwise
satisfied, that any property acquired by the said Samuel Chase after the
passage
of this act, either by descent, or in his own right by devise, bequest,
or in the
course of distribution, shall be liable therefor. |
1789.
CHAP.
X. |
III. And be
it enacted, by and with the assent of the said Thomas Dorsey,
That
the property purchased by the said Samuel Chase of this state, and paid
for as
aforesaid, and proposed to be assigned to the said Thomas Dorsey, shall
not be
conveyed to the said Thomas Dorsey until all debts due to the state from
the said
Thomas Dorsey or either of the said two companies, be paid and satisfied;
and
that the said property so to be conveyed, shall, in the first instance,
be liable to
pay the debts due from the said partnerships to this state. |
Property not
to be conveyed,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, If any process shall issue on any judgment or decree
obtained against the said Samuel Chase, for or on account of either of
the partnerships
above mentioned, or for the recovery of any money or tobacco heretofore
due, or contracted on account of either of the said partnerships, that
the
court out of which such process shall issue, shall, ex officio, in
a summary way,
inquire into the cause of issuing such process, and if issued on such account,
they
shall quash the process, or take a common appearance without bail, as the
case
may require; provided always, that the discharge of the said Samuel Chase
from
any process, shall not acquit any other person. |
On process
issuing, court
may inquire,
&c. |
CHAP. XI.
An ACT to repeal all those parts of an act of assembly passed at
February session, in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven
hundred and seventy-seven, entitled, An act to punish
certain
crimes and misdemeanors, and to prevent the growth of
toryism,
which make it necessary to take, repeat and subscribe,
the oath
therein mentioned. |
Passed December
22. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all those parts
of the said act, passed at February session, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven,
which direct that every senator, delegate to congress or assembly,
member of the council, electors of the senate, and every attorney at law,
and
all civil officers, and all persons holding any office of trust or
profit in this state,
should take the oath therein prescribed, be and are hereby repealed. |
Parts of an
act repealed. |
CHAP. XII.
An ACT to alter and amend that part of the public road leading
from Port-Tobacco, in Charles county, to Leonard-town,
in Saint-Mary's
county, which lies between Allen's-Fresh and Pile's
Creek. |
Passed December
19. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Charles and Saint-Mary's
counties,
by their humble petition to this general assembly, have set forth,
that that part of the public road leading from Port-Tobacco, in |
Preamble. |
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