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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esq; Governor.
manner as other county charges are by law collected; and the said sum
and sums
of money, when so as aforesaid collected, shall be paid by such sheriff
to the commissioners
appointed by the act to which this is a supplement, or a major part of
them, or their order or orders, who are hereby authorised and required
to receive
and apply the same to the uses and purposes of finishing the court-house,
public
prison and yard, in said county; and if the money directed by this law
to be levied
on the inhabitants of Cæcil, shall be more than sufficient for the
purposes
aforesaid, the surplus shall be applied in aid of the county charges. |
1789.
CHAP.
XVII. |
CHAP. XVIII.
An additional supplement to an act, entitled, An act for securing
the title of the proprietors of lots and houses
in Charles-town,
in Charles county, passed November session, one thousand
seven
hundred and seventy-nine. |
Passed December
19. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the commissioners
appointed by the above recited act, and the supplement thereto,
have not executed and performed the several duties required of
them by the said acts; and it appearing just and proper that commissioners
be
appointed to carry into execution the purposes in the said acts mentioned
and required
to be done, |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Messieurs John
Dent, Gerard Blackiston Causin, John Hanson, youngest, Henry Dent, of
George, and Caleb Hawkins, be and are hereby appointed commissioners for
carrying into execution and fully completing the intentions of the said
acts, who
shall meet at the said town of Charles-town, commonly called Port-Tobacco,
on or before the first day of April next, and when met they, or any three
of
them, after taking an oath well and truly, and impartially, without fear,
favour
or affection, to discharge the several trusts reposed in them by this and
the said
recited acts, shall be and hereby are vested with full power and authority
to do,
execute and perform, the several things and duties required of the former
commissioners
by the said acts, and when done, shall be deemed, taken and considered,
as good and effectual in law as though they had been performed within the
time
appointed by the said recited acts, any thing therein contained to the
contrary
notwithstanding. |
Commissioners
appointed,
&c. |
CHAP. XIX.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act to establish a market at
the market-house in Chester-town, in Kent county,
and for
the regulation of the said market. |
Passed December
19. |
WHEREAS it has been found by experience that the
provision made in
an act to establish a market-house in Chester-town, in Kent county,
and for the regulation of the said market, against slaughtering, or
butchering any cattle kind, sheep or hog, in or near about the same market-house,
has been found insufficient to protect the inhabitants of the said town
from the
disagreeable and dangerous consequences of slaughter-houses erected and
kept
within the said town; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That if any person
or persons shall, after the first day of February next, slaughter or butcher
any
cattle kind, sheep or hog, within the limits of said town of Chester, except
in
such parts thereof as shall be appointed by the justices of the orphans
court of
Kent county, or any three of them, who are hereby authorised to appoint
any
part of parts of the said town which they may think convenient for that
purpose,
and such appointment to revoke when they think proper, such person
or persons
shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty shillings
current
money, to be applied, laid out and expended, under the direction of the
justices
of the said orphans court, in the same manner as is directed with respect
to fines
and penalties imposed by the act above mentioned. |
Penalty on
slaughtering
cattle in Chester-town,
&c. |
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