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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the vestry
of Saint Paul's parish, in Baltimore county, are hereby permitted to take
and receive a grant from the said John Eager Howard, to them, and their
successors for ever hereafter, for all that piece or parcel of ground contained
within the following metes and bounds, courses and distances, it being
part of a tract of land called Lun's Lot; beginning for the same, on the
north side of north-west street, in Baltimore-town, and where the said
street intersects the north-north-east two hundred and seventy-five perches
line of sid land called Lun's Lot, and running north-west binding on
north-west street one hundred and sixty-five street, thence north-north-east
parallel with the said north-north-east line one hundred and forty feet,
then east-south-east one hundred and fifty-five until it intersects the
north-north-east line aforesaid, then binding on said line, reversing the
same
to the place of beginning, containing one half acre and twenty-eight square
perches of land, more or less, for the intent and purpose of erecting a
parsonage
thereon, for the residence of the minister of the said parish for the
time being, and that the said grant, when executed, acknowledged and recorded,
with the solemnities required by law for the conveyance of real
estates, shall be good and effectual in the courts of law and equity in
this
state, and the vestry of the said parish, and their successors, shall be
vested
with an estate in fee simple therein; saving, nevertheless, to the state
of
Maryland, and all bodies politic and corporate, and all persons not mentioned
in this act, their several and respective rights. |
1785.
CHAP.
XL.
Vestry may
receive a
grant, &c. |
CHAP. XLI.
An ACT for the valuation of personal property within this
state. |
Passed Mar. 8. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all personal
property in this state, not belonging to this state, or the United
States, or to any church, county or parish, or to either of the
colleges, or to any county school, or to any corporation for charitable
uses, (except the crop and produce of the land for the year next preceding
the time of valuation in the hands of the person whose land produced
the same, provisions (not including live stock) necessary for the use and
consumption of the person to whom the same shall belong, and his family,
for the year, and plantation utensils, the working tools of mechanics
and manufacturers, actually and constantly employed in their respective
occupations, ready money, wearing apparel, and goods, wares and merchandise,
imported,) shall be valued agreeably to such valuation, with the public
assessment. |
Personal property
to be
valued, &c. |
II. And be it
enacted, That five sensible, discreet, and experienced
persons, shall be appointed in each county of the state, who shall be called
commissioners of the tax, and they, or any three or more of them,
shall be the commissioners for each county, until the first day of February,
in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-one; and five persons, as
aforesaid, shall be appointed, and called commissioners of the tax for
Baltimore-town,
for the same time; provided, That no member of the general
assembly of the council, clergymen, practising attorney or physician,
sheriff, clerk of the general or any county court, ordinary-keeper, mariner,
or inspector, shall be appointed a commissioner or assessor. |
Commissioners
to be appointed,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the following persons shall be, and are hereby
appointed, commissioners for the several and respective counties of this
state, to wit: For Saint Mary's county, Messieurs Jeremiah Jordan,
Robert
Chesley, William Killgour, Thomas Attaway Reeder, and Zachariah Forrest; |
Their names. |
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