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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esquire, Governor.
hath, directly or indirectly, sold, conveyed, leased, or otherwise disposed
of, or
intrusted or concealed, any part of his property of any kind, or any
part of his
debts, rights or claims, thereby wilfully to deceive or defraud his
creditors, or
any of them, or to secure the same, or to receive or expect any profit,
benefit or
advantage, thereby, the said court may thereupon examine such debtor
or interrogatories,
on oath, for the discovery of his property, or any concealment thereof,
and respect his conduct touching the same; or the said justices may,
in their
discretion, direct an issue to be tried ion the said court, to determine
the truth of
any allegation made by such creditor; and if such debtor shall be found
guilty of
any wilful fraud or deceit of his creditors, he shall for ever be precluded
from
having any benefit of this act; and in case any such debtor shall,
at any time
within two years as aforesaid, upon any indictment, be convict of wilfully,
falsely
and corruptly, swearing to any matter or thing in his oath aforesaid
contained, he
shall suffer as in case of wilful and corrupt perjury, and likewise
be liable to his
creditors, and be wholly deprived of any relief or benefit by this
act. |
1790.
CHAP.
XIII. |
CHAP. XIV.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of commissioners for the
regulation and improvement of Easton, in Talbot
county, and
to establish and regulate a market at the said town. |
Passed December
20. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, that the
town of Easton, in Talbot county, has considerably increased in houses
and inhabitants, and that the improvement and advantage of the said
town would be greatly promoted by placing the same under the care and
regulation
of certain commissioners, to be elected by the citizens thereof, with
sufficient
powers to forward this salutary end: Therefore, |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That five judicious
and discreet persons, residing in the said town, or within five miles
thereof,
shall be elected, by ballot, on the third Monday in March, in the year
seventeen
hundred and ninety-one, at the court-house in the said town, by the
free male
inhabitants thereof, above the age of one and twenty years, and having
resided
within the limits of the said town for the space of one year next preceding
the
election, and having property in possession of the value of thirty
dollars; and the
five persons who shall appear to have the greatest number of votes
at the close of
the election, shall be declared to be duly elected the commissioners
of the said
town, and shall have and exercise the several powers and authority
delegated to
them by this act; and every free male person, above the age of one
and twenty
years, and having a freehold estate, or leasehold property for a term
exceeding
one and twenty years, within the limits of the said town, shall likewise
have a
right to vote in the election of the said commissioners, notwithstanding
such person
may not be resident therein. |
Five persons
to be elected,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the commissioners so chosen, shall assemble on
the first Monday in April next ensuing their election, at the court-house
in the
said town, and arrange and number themselves into five classes by lot,
and the office
of the commissioner of the first class shall determine at the expiration
of one
year after his election, the office of the commissioner of the second
class at the
expiration of two years, the office of the the commissioner of the
third class at the
expiration of three years, the office of the commissioner of the fourth
class at
the expiration of four years, and the office of the commissioner of
the fifth class
at the expiration of five years; and the vacancy thus successively
occasioned by
the determination of their respective offices, shall be supplied by
an election of
a judicious and discreet person, resident as aforesaid, to be made
at the court-house
in the said town, by the inhabitants and others, qualified to vote
as aforesaid,
on the third Monday of March in every year, and the person so elected,
shall remain in office for the term of five years; and the succession
of the said
commissioners be so continued, as that one commissioner shall be chosen
annually. |
Commissioners
to assemble,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That any justice of the peace for the county aforesaid
shall, in the first instance, be the judge of the said election, and
shall return his |
Justice to be
judge, &c. |
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