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GEORGE PLATER, Esquire, Governor.
II. And be it
enacted, That Thomas Hughlett, Zebdiel Potter, John Allen
Sangston, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to contract
with workmen
and superintend the building a good and sufficient gaol on the public ground
at Denton, in said county, and the erecting and making a good and sufficient
causeway on the east side of Choptank river, nearly opposite the court-house
of
said county, and a strong and substantial wharf on the west side of
the said river;
and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised
to receive
the money, when collected, of the sheriff of said county, and give
receipt for the
same, and the same shall be applied by the said commissioners, or a majority
of
them, to the purposes of building the said gaol, and making the said causeway. |
1791.
CHAP.
XXV.
Commissioners
appointed,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That if any of the sid commissioners shall die, remove
out of the county, or refuse to act, the remainder of them shall immediately
thereafter proceed to nominate and appoint another to supply the vacancy. |
How vacancies
are to be
filled. |
CHAP. XXVI.
An ACT for the relief of Rhoda Phillips, of Dorchester county. |
Passed December
27. |
WHEREAS Rhoda Phillips, of Dorchester county, by
her petition to
the general assembly, set forth, that her husband John Phillips, late
of Dorchester county, departed this life some time in the year seventeen
hundred and eighty-seven, intestate, leaving the petitioner his widow,
and
five small children; that the petitioner took out letters of administration,
and
proceeded to the settlement of the estate; tat she found her late husband
held
several tracts, or parts of tracts, of land, lying in Somerset county,
in fee, and
had obtained a special warrant to resurvey said tracts, or parts of
tracts, of land;
that said resurvey was made, and certificate thereof returned into the
land-office
of the western shore, and the land called Phillips Farewell, but the composition
money was left unpaid, and the petitioner compounded for the same, and
paid all
other fees; and further, that John Phillips, in his lifetime, sold said
lands, with
the land included by virtue of said resurvey, and passed bonds for the
conveyance
thereof upon payment of the purchase money; that the deceased died considerably
indebted to the state of Maryland, and individuals of this state, which
debts
the declared always intended to pay out of the money arising from the sale
of his
lands aforesaid, leaving a very small personal estate; that suit had
commenced
against her by the state of Maryland; and that, on application to the purchasers
of the land in Somerset county, they would not pay the money to her, except
she could obtain a title to the land; and the petitioner, not having a
right to
convey, and the heir at law being an infant, prayed a law might pass, directing
that patent might issue in her name, or in the name of some other person,
for the purpose of conveying the same agreeably to the bonds passed, for
her said
husband, by which means she would be enabled to pay the debts of the deceased. |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the register of
the land-office for the western shore shall issue patent, in the name of
Rhoda
Phillips, on the certificate of resurvey aforesaid returned by John
Phillips, containing
nine hundred and six and one half acres of land, called Phillips Farewell,
and the governor and the chancellor are authorised to sign and seal the
same
in the useful manner that patents are signed and sealed. |
Register to
issue patent,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the said Rhoda Phillips shall make deeds, in her
name, to the purchasers of the land aforesaid, agreeably to the bonds passed
by
her late husband, which deeds shall be valid to the purchasers aforesaid,
and
when she receives the money from the purchasers aforesaid, shall be accountable
for the same as part of the personal estate of the said John Phillips. |
R. Phillips to
make deeds,
&c. |
CHAP. XXVII.
An ACT to prevent swine from going at large in the town of
Bladensburgh,
in Prince-George's county. |
Passed December
27. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that sundry persons
in the town of Bladensburgh, in Prince-George's county, do
raise and keep great numbers of swine, and suffer them to go and |
Preamble. |
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