1801

NOVEMBER. L A W S OF M A R Y L A N D.

C H A P.
XLV.

state an abstract of their accounts, shewing the whole amount of their capital expended in prose-
cution of the said work, and of the profits and income arising from said toll for and during the
said respective periods, together with an exact account of the costs and charges of keeping the
said road in repair, and all other contingent cost and charges, to the end that the clear annual in-
come 'and profits thereof may be ascertained and known ; and if, at the end of three years after
the said road shall be completed from the beginning to the end thereof, it shall appear, from the
average profits of the said three years, that the said income and profits thereof will not bear a
dividend of fifteen per centum per annum on the whole capital stock of the said company so expend-
ed, then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said president and directors to increase the tolls
herein allowed so much upon each and every allowance thereof as will raise the dividends up to
fifteen per centum per annum, in which increase they shall be regulated by the net profits of the
preceding year.

Tolls may be
reduced, &c.

XVI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the said tolls, as hereby first established, shall, in
any one year from and after the term of three years after the completion of the said road, exceed
in net profits the sum of fifteen per centum per annum, then the legislature may, at any subsequent
session, and from time to time, reduce the said tolls, provided, that when thus reduced they shall
not yield in net profits a less sum than fifteen per centum per annum, and in making such reduction
they shall be governed by the average of the clear income and profits arising from the tolls of the
three years next preceding such reduction.

CHAP. XLVL

Passed 31st of
Dec, 1801.

An ACT, entitled, An act to enable John Sprigg Belt, James
Walker and Archibald Dorsey , to complete the collection of the
county tax in certain districts in Anne-Arundel county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS John Sprigg Belt, James Walker and Archibald Dorsey, securities of Robert
Conn for the collection of the county tax in certain districts in Anne- Arundel county for
the year seventeen hundred and ninety, have set forth by their petition to this general assem-
bly, that there is still uncollected in the districts for which they became securities, in the county
aforesaid, a considerable sum of money, which money the said Conn was unable to collect by rea-
son of the yellow fever in the city of Baltimore, and pray that they may be allowed a longer time
to complete said collection, ; therefore,

J. S. Belt, &c.
may collet, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said John Sprigg Belt, James
Walker and Archibald Dorsey, the survivor or survivors of them, be and they are hereby autho-
rised to collect all balances left uncollected as aforesaid, at any time before the first day of Octo-
ber next, in the same manner as the said Robert Conn might have done while he was collector,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

To deliver an
account, &c.

III. AND EE IT ENACTED, That the said John Sprigg Belt, James Walker and Archibald Dor-
sey, the survivor or survivors of them, shall deliver to the persons chargeable with the same, an
account, written in words of full length, of the taxes demands of them, with an annexed affida-
vit, if required, that the said Robert Conn hath not received, nor have they received, any part
thereof, nor any thing as security or satisfaction for the same, more than credits given, to the
best of their knowledge.

And lodge the
collector's
books, &c.

IV. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the said John Sprigg Belt, James Walker and Ar-
chibald Dorsey, before they derive any benefit from or under this act, shall lodge the said Robert
Conn's collector's books in the clerk's office of Anne Arundel county, to be open to the inspection
of all persons interested in the same.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

C H A P. XLVII

An ACT incorporating a society for the maintenance and education
of poor female children, by the name of The Female Humane

Preamble.

Association Charity School.

WHEREAS it appears that sundry persons in the city of Baltimore did, in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, associate themselves together for the
humane and laudable purpose of maintaining and educating poor female children of every denomi-
nation,