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this commission on January 25, 1806, when be became
chancellor of the state of Maryland, a position which
he retained until his death in 1821.¹⁴

His most important work was A Report on All Such
English Statutes as Existed at the Time of the first
Emigration of the People of Maryland, and Which by
Experience Have Been Found Applicable tn their Local
and Other Circumstances,¹⁵ published in 1811. In
1818 he collaborated with Thomas Harris and John N.
Watkins in a four-volume continuation of his Laws of
Maryland published in 1799 and 1800. He was, besides,
something of a musician; and he wrote and published
verse. Niles' Register stated, at Kilty's death, that

His death, we believe, has deprived Maryland
of the only person that exactly knew what is
the constitution of the state.¹⁶

The inventory of the printing office, taken after
the death of Samuel and Frederick Green on January 6
and 12, 1811, respectively,¹⁷ itemizes the equipment
of a state printer and newspaper publisher. Judging
by the typography of the Green publications of 1810
and of the 1790's, about the same material as here
listed seems likely to have been used during the period

14 Dictionary of American biography. v. 10, p,375.
15 Maryland state bar association. Report. 1905.

p. 133.
16 Dictionary of American biography, v. 10,

p. 375-376.
17 Wheeler, J.T. The Maryland press, 1777-1790. p,70.