1790.
Passed December
21. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
CHAP. XXXVI.
An ACT to allow the proprietors of the Susquehanna canal a further
time to complete the same, and to extend the number
of
shares to thirty shares. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by an act of assembly, made and passed at
November session,
seventeen hundred and eighty-three, entitled, An act for making
the river Susquehanna navigable from the line of this sate to tide
water, it was, among other things, enacted, that the persons incorporated
by the
said act should begin the canal on or before the first day of October then
next
following, and fully complete the same, according to the directions of
the said
act, within seven years, and on failure or neglect to perform the same
within the
term aforesaid, the said act should be null and void, and of no effect:
And
whereas the said canal hath been begun, and progress made therein, and
the same
is not yet fully completed, and this general assembly being desirous
of allowing
the proprietors of said canal a further time for completing the same; therefore, |
Proprietors
allowed further
time, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the proprietors of
the said canal, and their successors, shall be and are hereby allowed till
the first day
of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight,
to complete the said canal, and if the said canal shall be completed
and finished
on or before the said first day of October, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight,
then and in that case the proprietors of the said canal, and their successors,
shall
be entitled to all the privileges, benefits and advantages, prescribed
and enumerated
in the said act for making the river Susquehanna navigable, and the supplement
thereto, as fully and effectually as if the said canal had been completed
within
the time limited by the said original act. |
Shares may be
increased. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the said corporation shall have full power and
authority to increase the number of shares to the amount of thirty. |
Any alien
may purchase,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That any alien, foreigner or foreigners, may purchase
in and hold a share or shares in the said corporation, in as full and ample
a manner
as if he or they were citizens of the state of Maryland at the time
of making
such purchase, and may continue to hold the same, notwithstanding his
or their
residence in a foreign country. |
Passed December
21. |
CHAP. XXXVII.
A Supplement to the act to prevent the exportation of bread and
flour
not merchantable, and for other purposes. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, that great
injury hath arisen in foreign markets to the character of flour exported
from Baltimore-town, in consequence of permitting flour to be
exported under the denomination of " cross middlings," and heretofore branded
Baltimore Middlings, |
Inspector not
to pass certain
barrels, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after
the first of October, seventeen hundred and ninety-one it shall not be
lawful for
the inspector of flour for Baltimore-town to pass inspection or brand any
barrel
containing flour (with any brand whatsoever) between the qualities known
in the
said original act by the name of Middlings and that known by the name
of Fine. |
Penalty on
packing flour
in barrels
heretofore
marked, &c. |
III. Be it enacted,
That if any person or persons shall hereafter pack or remove
any flour into any flour barrel which hath been heretofore marked or branded
by
the inspector of flour, and shall sell or export the same in such branded
barrel, under
such mark or brand, without having the same inspected and again marked
and
branded, by the inspector of Baltimore-town, previous to such sale or exportation,
shall be subject to indictment in the courts of law of this state, and
be sentenced,
on conviction, to work and labour on the highways in Baltimore county as
a criminal,
not exceeding one year, or such other punishment, by whipping not exceeding |
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