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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esq; Governor.
the auditor two hundred pounds; the clerk of the council two hundred
and fifty
pounds; the clerk of the senate thirty pounds; the clerk of the house of
delegates
seventy-five pounds; the printer to the state three hundred and seventy-five
pounds; the messenger to the council fifty pounds. |
1789.
CHAP.
XLIX. |
III. And be
it enacted, That all monies which shall remain in the treasury
after discharging the journal of accounts, and all monies heretofore appropriated
to the use of congress, which shall hereafter be received, and all unappropriated
money which may come into the treasury, be first applied to the payment
of the
civil list for the ensuing year. |
Money to be
first applied to
the civil list,
&c. |
CHAP. L.
An ACT respecting the collectors of the public taxes since the
first of January, seventeen
hundred and eighty-three. |
Passed December
25. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That William Campbell,
of Anne-Arundel county, be and he is hereby appointed an agent,
on the part of this state, to superintend the collection of all arrearages
and balances due from the several collectors of the respective counties
within this
state, appointed since the first day of January, seventeen hundred and
eighty-three,
(except the two shillings and six-penny fund tax;) and the said agent is
hereby authorised and required to call upon the treasurers of the respective
shores
for an accurate statement of all the arrearages and balances due from such
collectors,
and such account shall be furnished by the said treasurers accordingly. |
An agent appointed,
&c. |
II. And be it
enacted, That the said agent shall thereupon apportion such
arrearages and balances into such reasonable parts as shall think most
proper
and effectual for securing the collection thereof, and shall also limit
such reasonable
periods for the payment of such respective parts of the said arrearages
and balances as shall appear to him most proper and available to that end,
and
immediately thereafter he shall cause full notice of these proceedings
to be given
in writing to each respective collector so in arrears for the said taxes,
and to his
securities, and shall require them severally to pay into the treasury of
the respective
shores such parts of the said arrearages and balances as he shall have
so
apportioned, by the respective periods limited by him for the payment thereof;
and if any such collector, or his securities, shall refuse or neglect to
comply with
the requisitions of the said agent, it shall and may be lawful for
the said agent,
and he is hereby authorised and required to proceed, by execution, in the
most
effectual manner against each and every defaulter, so as to insure the
payment
of all the arrearages and balances due, or such part thereof as he shall
think
proper, having a just regard to the circumstances of each respective case;
and
the said agent shall proceed, from time to time, in discharge of the duties
required
of them by this act, or otherwise, as he shall find most advisable
for promoting
the payment and collection of the said arrearages and balances, so as the
same be paid and satisfied by the said collectors on or before the first
day of
March, seventeen hundred and ninety-one; provided always, that the
indulgence
shall be so arranged that not less than eighteen thousand pounds specie
shall be
payable into the treasury in the year seventeen hundred and ninety. |
Who shall apportion
arrearages,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the service of all executions issued against any
of
the said collectors, or their securities, for the amount of their respective
balances,
or any part thereof, be and the same is hereby suspended until the first
day of
March next, and afterwards till the same shall be directed by the said
agent, in
pursuance of the powers vested in him by this act. |
Service of executions
suspended, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That whenever there shall be occasion to expose to
public sale the property of any such collector, or their securities, by
virtue of any
execution to be directed for this purpose, the said agent shall cause public
notice
to be given of such sale, and shall attend the same, and, if necessary,
shall purchase
any property so exposed for the use of this state, in payment, or part
payment,
as the case may be, of the arrearages and balances due by the collectors |
Notice to be
given of sales,
&c. |
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