240
Dec. Ses. 1825.
Passed Feb.
3, 1826.
Preamble.
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RESOLUTIONS.
No. 26.
Whereas the recent alarming fire at the old methodist
meeting-house,
lately occupied as a printing office, has endangered the
safety of the state-house, and the treasury-office: And whereas
it is ascertained, that said building is now upon the public property,
and in a state of decay: Therefore,
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Old meeting
house.
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Resolved, That the governor
be, and he is hereby requested
to cause the said house to be removed at as early a day as possible.
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Passed Feb.
3, 1826.
Council in
case of A.
Browne.
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No. 27.
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the
governor and council be, and they are hereby authorised and
required to elect and employ proper council on the part of the
state, to aid in the prosecution of the suit now pending in the
supreme court of the United States; the state of Maryland vs.
Alexander Browne and others.
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Payment.
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Resolved, That the treasurer
of the Western Shore be, and he
is hereby authorised and required to pay to the order of the
governor and council, such sum or sums of money as they may
deem proper, to compensate such council, and to defray all incidental
expenses necessarily incurred in the prosecution of the
said suit.
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Passed Feb.
3, 1826.
Tax, Somerset
county.
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No. 28.
Resolved, That the time prescribed by law for
the payment into
the treasury of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, of the direct
tax imposed on Somerset county, by the act of the General Assembly,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-four, be, and the same is hereby extended to the first day
of September, in the present year of eighteen hundred and
twenty-six, and that upon the prompt and punctual payment of
the full amount of said direct tax, with an interest thereon, at the
rate of six per centum per annum, by the collector of said county,
at or before that time, the additional interest of nine per centum,
be, and the same is hereby remitted and released, any law
to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
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Passed Feb.
3, 1826.
Executive
take charge
of chancery
papers.
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No. 29.
Resolved, That the governor and council, be, and
they are
hereby authorised and required to take under their superintendance,
the papers remaining unrecorded in the chancery office, and
which should have been placed on record by Samuel H. Howard,
Nicholas Brewer, James P. Heath, and Thomas H. Bowie, esquires,
late registers in chancery.
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Have them
recorded.
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Resolved, That the governor
and council, be, and they are
hereby authorised and required to cause such of said papers as
are required by law to be recorded, to be registered as soon as
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