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GEORGE PLATER, Esquire, Governor.
CHAP. LXXXVIII.
An ACT for the payment of the journal of accounts. |
1791.
Passed December
30. |
WHEREAS it appears by the journal of accounts of
this session, that
there is now due from this state the sum of eight thousand one hundred
and fifty-three pounds ten shillings and eight-pence current
money; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the treasurer
of the western shore shall and he is hereby authorised and required to
pay the
several persons, their executors, administrators, assigns or orders,
or to such of
them as shall offer to receive the same, the several sums of current money
allowed
to them respectively, as they appear to be settled and ascertained by the
said
journal of accounts, out of any money now in the treasury, or that shall
come
into the treasury, subject to the appropriation of the general assembly. |
Treasurer to
pay claims,
&c. |
CHAP. LXXXIX.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act for erecting a bridge
over Patowmack river. |
Passed December
30. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Samuel Blodget,
Robert Peter, WIlliam Deakins, junior, James M. Lingan and Uriah
Forrest, be authorised and directed to open, or cause to be opened, books
for receiving and entering subscriptions to the amount of four hundred
shares,
instead of one hundred and fifty shares, as authorised and directed
by the act to
which this is a supplement. |
Books to be
opened, &c. |
CHAP. XC.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to appoint an agent
for the year seventeen hundred and ninety-two, and for
other
purposes. |
Passed December
30. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the agent appointed
by or in virtue of the act of the present session of assembly to
which this is a supplement, shall have full power and authority to compound
with discoverers of confiscated British property upon the terms and conditions
prescribed in the act to empower the governor and council to compound
with discoverers of British property, who heretofore made application
concerning
the same, and for other purposes, passed at November session, seventeen
hundred and eighty-eight, and to dispose of such property, and take
bonds for
the purchase money, in the same manner as directed by the act to which
this is
a supplement, as to confiscated British property unsold, and on the same
credit
and terms. |
Agent to
compound,
&c. |
II. And be it
enacted, That the said agent shall immediately call on such discoverers
of confiscated British property, and if such applicants shall not, on or
before first day of June next, make known to the said agent the title of
the
state to the property discovered, the said agent shall, immediately thereafter,
proceed
to ascertain the state's right, and dispose of the same as aforesaid, without
making such discoverers, who refuse or neglect to comply with this notice,
any
compensation. |
And call on
discoverers,
&c. |
| RESOLUTIONS assented to November Session, 1791.
RESOLVED, That the auditor-general
be and he is hereby authorised and directed to examine
the musters of the Maryland line, and other documents
that may be produced, and liquidate
the depreciation on the pay of James Carvin, late a soldier in the fourth
Maryland regiment,
and grant him, or his legal representatives, a certificate
for what may appear
to be justly due.
WHEREAS it appears to the general assembly,
that Henry C. Baker, late a lieutenant in the third
Maryland regiment, is deprived of the use of his limbs,
and thereby rendered incapable of maintaining
himself, his wife and children; and it also appearing that he probably
derived the disorder, under which
he now labours, from being exposed in the service of his country, during
several campaigns in South-Carolina;
therefore, RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor of Maryland, for
the time being, |
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