| 1791.
CHAP.
LXXI. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
to the order of the said commissioners, or any three of them, for the
payment
of the said interest, whenever they shall, in their discretion, determine
it advisable
to pay the same. |
Passed December
30. |
CHAP. LXXII.
An ACT to extend the time for the late sheriffs and collectors to
complete their several collections. |
Balances may
be collected
by execution,
&c. |
BE it enacted,
by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may
be lawful for any person who executed the office of sheriff or collector
in
any county for the last three years, to receive and collect, by execution
or
otherwise, at any time before the first day of January, seventeen hundred
and
ninety-three, all balances of fund or county taxes which they have
been appointed
to collect during the last three years as aforesaid, in as full and
ample manner as
if no law to the contrary had ever been made. |
Time for collecting
extended,
&c. |
II. And,
whereas it is represented, that William McLaughlin and Philip
Graybell, the late sheriffs and collectors of Baltimore county, have
not completed
their collection of public dues, and it is thought reasonable to give
them further
time to complete the same, Be it enacted,
That the limitation of time for collecting
the public dues in said county shall be extended until the first day
of
January, seventeen hundred and ninety-three, any law to the contrary
notwithstanding,
subject to the same regulations and remedies as are now established
by
law; provided, that the same be collected without charging any fees
or commission
for collection, and that the commissioners of the tax allow them for
insolvencies
on amerciaments, in cases where the persons chargeable with such
amerciaments were insolvent at the time when the said amerciaments
were
put into the hands of the said William McLaughlin and Philip Graybell
for
collection. |
Passed December
30. |
CHAP. LXXIII.
An ACT for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS Thomas Smyth, Hezekiah Cooper, of Kent county,
Jeremiah
Baker, Patrick Hamilton and George Hamilton, of Cæcil
county, Joseph Donaldson, Thomas Peters, Richard Ridgely, Daniel
Bowers, John Beal Howard, Benjamin Nicholson, John Kirwan, Benjamin
Laming, John Weatherburn, Caleb Tappin, Sutton Leggate, Joseph Evans,
Frederick Devilbiss, Thomas Langton, William Hammond and Samuel Sterett,
of Baltimore county, Richard Wheeler, Basil Burgess, Marsh Mareen Duvall,
Stephen Clark, Stephen Steward, Isaac Simmonds, of Anne-Arundel county,
Eleanor Bowles, John Sleeth, of Washington county, Samuel Offutt, Henry
Watson, David Geddes, Joseph H. Jones and George Stevens, of Montgomery
county, John Kennedy and Risdon Bozman, of Somerset county, Francis King,
of Calvert county, Benjamin Contee, of Charles county, Sarah Dashiell,
of
Queen-Anne's county, Benjamin Belt and Alexander Contee, of Prince-George's
county, John Dow Cary, Benedict Woodward and John J. Schley, of Frederick
county, Isaac Whitaker and Josias Hitchcock, junior, of Harford county,
by
their petitions to this general assembly, have set forth, that by reason
of many
misfortunes they are enable wholly to satisfy their creditors, and have
prayed that
they may be discharged, upon their delivering up all their property for
the use of
their creditors; and the prayer of the said petitioners being found reasonable,
therefore, |
Chancellor,
on application,
to direct
notice to be
given, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That on application
of either of the said debtors to the chancellor, by petition in writing,
offering to
deliver up to the use of his creditors all his property, real, personal
or mixed, to
which he is any way entitled, a schedule whereof (on oath, or affirmation,
as
the case may require) together with a list of the creditors of the person
so applying,
on oath or affirmation, as far as he can ascertain them, shall be annexed
to
such petition, the chancellor shall, in his discretion, either direct personal
notice of
such application to be given to the creditors, or so many of them as
can be served |
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