1835.
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LAWS OF MARYLANE.
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CHAP. 184
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on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, the eighth, ninth,
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and tenth days of August, in the year eighteen hundred
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and thirty-five, a tumultuous mob assembled in the
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City of Baltimore and lawlessly and riotously assailed,
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defaced and destroyed, a large amount of property be-
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longing to several citizens of this State; And whereas,
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it also appears fully proven that for several days pre-
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vious, there were reasons well founded and well known
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to apprehend such violent proceedings; also, that when
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the said moh did assemble, it was not formidable in
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number or arms; and that the authorities civil and mi-
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litary, and the people of the said city had ample pow-
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er, at any time to have quelled and dispersed the riot-
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ers, but failed to exercise that power, and suffered the
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houses and other property of peaceable citizens to be
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deliberately pulled down, burned or otherwise destroy-
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ed from day to day by the said rioters, now therefore.
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Persons named
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, That Alexander Fridge, Ashton Alexander
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and Charles Howard, be, and they are hereby appoin-
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ted commissioners, and upon refusal to act or death of
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Case of vacancy
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either of said commissioners, the Governor and Coun-
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cil shall appoint some person or persons, to fill such
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vacancy or vacancies with authority to examine and
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Authorised to as-ses the damages
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ascertain, by view and by such proof under oath as they
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shall deem competent and sufficient, the value of the
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property, injured or destroyed by the said mob, belong-
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ing to any person or persons who shall allcdge in writ-
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ing by proof under oath to the said commissioners, that
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his property was injured or destroyed by the mob afore-
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said; and it shall be the duty of the said commission-
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ers or a majority of them, to make under oath, to the
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Treasurer of the Western Shore, a return, of the esti-
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mate of value and damages by them made, specifying
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the names of the parties injured and the amount of loss
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or injury sustained by them respectively.
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Treasurer to issue certificates for
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That upon receiving such
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am't
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return, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the
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Western Shore to issue to each of said parties, certifi-
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cates of stock of this State, bearing interest at the
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rate of five per centum per annum, payable half year-
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