1835.

LAWS OF MARYLANE.

CHAP. 184

on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, the eighth, ninth,

and tenth days of August, in the year eighteen hundred

and thirty-five, a tumultuous mob assembled in the

City of Baltimore and lawlessly and riotously assailed,

defaced and destroyed, a large amount of property be-

longing to several citizens of this State; And whereas,

it also appears fully proven that for several days pre-

vious, there were reasons well founded and well known

to apprehend such violent proceedings; also, that when

the said moh did assemble, it was not formidable in

number or arms; and that the authorities civil and mi-

litary, and the people of the said city had ample pow-

er, at any time to have quelled and dispersed the riot-

ers, but failed to exercise that power, and suffered the

houses and other property of peaceable citizens to be

deliberately pulled down, burned or otherwise destroy-

ed from day to day by the said rioters, now therefore.

Persons named

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That Alexander Fridge, Ashton Alexander

and Charles Howard, be, and they are hereby appoin-

ted commissioners, and upon refusal to act or death of

Case of vacancy

either of said commissioners, the Governor and Coun-

cil shall appoint some person or persons, to fill such

vacancy or vacancies with authority to examine and

Authorised to as-ses the damages

ascertain, by view and by such proof under oath as they

shall deem competent and sufficient, the value of the

property, injured or destroyed by the said mob, belong-

ing to any person or persons who shall allcdge in writ-

ing by proof under oath to the said commissioners, that

his property was injured or destroyed by the mob afore-

said; and it shall be the duty of the said commission-

ers or a majority of them, to make under oath, to the

Treasurer of the Western Shore, a return, of the esti-

mate of value and damages by them made, specifying

the names of the parties injured and the amount of loss

or injury sustained by them respectively.

Treasurer to issue certificates for

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That upon receiving such

am't

return, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the

Western Shore to issue to each of said parties, certifi-

cates of stock of this State, bearing interest at the

rate of five per centum per annum, payable half year-