RESOLUTIONS.

Returned within the time limitted by the act of assembly passed at November feffion, 1795, entitled, An act re-
lative to the proceedings in the court of chancery and in the land-office, and the fame, when received in virtue
of this refolution, shall have the same effect and validity, to all intents and purposes, as if the fame had been
returned within the time prefcribed by law; provided, that nothing herein contained shall operate fo as to de-
feat or affect any title to said land that may already be acquired by any perfon or perfons, or to defeat any war-
rant already iflued, by which the said land might have been affected.

RESOLVED, That the treafurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and required to receive
from the late treafurer of the eastern fhore, all monies which were deposited in the eastern fhore treasury in
difcharge of debts due to foreigners, under the act of October feffion, 1780, and pass a receipt to the said late
treafurer for the fame.

RESOLVED, That the chancellor be authorifed and requeued to inquire into all the circumstances respecting a
certificate of survey of a tract of land called Friendship, owned by Thomas Randall, a patent iflued to Joseph
Shaul for a tract of land called Amos's Venture, and also a certificate of furvey called Small Hope, granted to
a certain George Storm, and if he should be of opinion that the said Thomas Randall is not entitled to a grant
on the laid certificate called Friendship, that then and in that cafe the said chancellor be authorifed and request
ed to decide thereon, and on the merits of the respective claims of the parties, in the fame manner as if the
said act of assembly in favour of said Thomas Randall, enacted at November feffion, feventeen hundred and
ninety-eight, had never paffed, any thing in the fame to the contrary notwithstanding.

RESOLVED, That all proceedings upon the judgments heretofore recovered, or to be recovered, by the state
against John Sterrett, James Nesbitt, James Steel, Hugh Lyon, Daniel Norris and Martha Patterfon, executrix
of John Patterfon, of Caecil county, upon bonds given for the purchase of a tract of land called The Widow's
Lot, alias Gonnaught Manor, lying in Susquehanna hundred, Caecil county, be and the fame are hereby stayed
until the twenty-ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and two.

RESOLVED, That all proceedings against William Rofe, James Booker, Philemon Willis and Richard Barnaby,
on account of their securityship for a certain William Stoddart Bond, in a bond given by him to the state of
Maryland on the twenty-third day of January, in the year feventeen hundred and ninety-nine, for the fum of
two thousand four hundred and thirty-eight pounds fixteen shillings, conditioned for the payment of the caution
money for a tract of land called Bone's Meadows, situate in Allegany county, containing twenty-two thoufand
fisty-nine and one half acres of land, be suspended until the first day of December, eighteen hundred and three;
provided nevertheless, that they the said petitioners shall confess judgment, if not yet obtained, where fuits
have been or shall be brought on said bond, and pay all cost accruing on said judgments, together with the an-
nual interest thereon.

RESOLVED, That all proceedings against Henry Gar diner, of Charles county, on a judgment obtained against
the said Henry Garcliner, and others, for the recovery of the balance due by him to the state of Maryland, be
and they are hereby fufpended until aster the first day of December, one thoufand eight hundred and two, and
chat the said Henry Gardiner be and he is hereby indulged in the payment of the said balance till the period be-
fore mentioned; provided, that the judgment aforesaid fliall continue and be in full force, notwithstanding the
fufpeniio.n of proceedings directed by this refolution, and if the balance that will then be due on the afore said
judgment be not paid by the time aforesaid, an execution may again be issued against the said Henry Gardiner,
to enforce the payment thereof.

RESOLVED, That all process against Thomas Nicholls, of Simon, of Montgomery county, for a debt due the
state, be fufpended, on his giving bond, with fecurity, on or before the first day of March next, to be approved
by the treafurer of the western shore, for the payment of the fame in three equal annual instalments ; provided,
If the said Thomas Nicholls, of Simon, shall neglect to pay either of the instalments when due, that execution
immediately issue against him and his fecurity or securities, to enforce the fame.

RESOLVED, That the treafurer of the western shore pay to Charles Emory, ar order, feve.n pounds, it being
a balance due to the said Charles Emory, an old bargeman, for his services on board of the barges during the
late war, as appears by a voucher from the auditor's office, under the hand of the auditor.

RESOLVED, That all fines imposed by a court-martial on thofe citizens who were enrolled and performed duty
in the twenty-ninth regiment, commanded by lieutenant-colonel Cumming, be and the fame are hereby remitted,
and that the sheriff of Frederick county is hereby authorifed and directed to pay over to the perfon or perfons
from whom he has received any fuch fine, the amount of money from him or them received, and that the said
Sheriff do not proceed to the further collection of any fuch fine or fines.

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