1801.

NOVEMBER, LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.

XXXIX.

November term of the said court of Frederick county, shall, from and after the passage of this
act, be done and performed at the August term of said court, any thing in any law contained
to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

Acts, &c. to be
done in Febru-
ary, &c,

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts, things and proceedings, heretofore by law directed to
be done and performed at the April term of the county court of Washington county, shall, from
and after the passage of this act, be done and performed at the February term of the said court of
Washington county, and that all acts, things and proceedings, heretofore by law directed to be
done and performed at the December term of the said court of Washington county, shall, from
and after the passage of this act, be done and performed at the August term of the said court of
Washington county, any thing in law to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

C H A P. XL.

Passed 31 st of
Dec. 1801.

An ACT to empower the justices of the levy court of Charles
county to assess and levy annually a sum of money for the pur-
pose therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS Luke Huntington, of Charles county, by his petition to this general assembly,
hath set forth, that his daughter Elizabeth Huntington is deprived of the use of her
limbs, and thereby is rendered unable to support herself, and that he, from indigent circumstances,
and having a large family, is entirely unable to contribute in any degree to her maintenance, and
praying that some provision may be made for the support of his said daughter ; and. the facts ap-
pearing to this general assembly to be true, therefore,

Justices to as-
sess money, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of
Charles county, at their levy court, shall have full power and authority, and they are hereby di-
rected and required, annually to assess, so long as they shall see cause, on the assessable property
of said county, a sum not exceeding forty dollars for any one year, which s,ajd sum, so levied and.
assessed, shall be collected as other county charges are, and paid to the said Luke Huntington,
or such other person as they, the said court, shall appoint, for the use, support and maintenance,
of the said Elizabeth Huntingdon.

C H A P. XLI.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

An ACT to extend the powers of the trustees of the poor of
Montgomery county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS Sarah Bright, by her petition to this general assembly, hath set forth, that she.
is a very poor woman, the mother of a helpless daughter, by the name of Eleanor Bright,
who was born an idiot, and still remains in the same situation, and is now arrived to the age of
twenty-four years ; one other daughter, by the name of Mary Bright, who is now in a state of in-
sanity, and hath been for ten months past, and that she is unable to support herself and daugh-
ters, and prays that an act may pass for the support of her said daughters out of the poor's house;
and the prayer of the petitioner appearing reasonable, therefore,

Persons to be
supported as
cut-pensioners,

&c

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
trustees of the poor of the said county of Montgomery, if they shall be of opinion that the pecu-
liar circumstances of the said Eleanor Bright and Mary Bright are such as to render a situation
in the poor-house particularly unsuitable for them, to support them as out-pensioners, in addition
to the number now allowed by the act, entitled, An act to enlarge the powers of the trustees of
the poor in the several counties therein designated, and to allow to the said Eleanor Bright and
Sarah Bright an annual pension, not exceeding thirty dollars each, to be paid at such time as the
said trustees shall direct, the amount of which said pensions shall be levied in the same manner as
the other expences of the poor-house in the said county.

CHAP. XLII.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the speedy recovery
of small debts, and to repeal the eighth section thereof, passed at
November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-one.

Justice may en-
force obedi-
ance, &c

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in all cases where witnesses do not;
attend according to summons, the justice of the peace before whom such witnesses ought to
have