JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, NOVEMBER,

1801,

such dog or bitch, and may enforce the collection thereof in like manner as Is directed by the act
to which this is a supplement for the collection of assessments on the property of the inhabitants
of the said town, and the said commissioners shall have power to make such regulations from time
to time respecting the keeping of dogs and bitches in the said town as shall be effectual for disco-
vering the owners thereof, and for the collection of the said tax, and may authorise and direct the
killing of any dog or bitch whose owner cannot be ascertained.

C H A P.

LXIV.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all town taxes arising upon any house or parcel of land within
the said town, which is not in the tenure and occupation of the owner thereof, may be charged to
the tenant or other occupant, who shall be liable to pay the same, and the payment thereof by such
tenant or other occupant may be enforced in the same manner as is directed by the said original
act for the collection of town taxes, and the tenant or occupant paying such taxes as aforesaid,
may charge the same to the owner of such house, lot or parcel of land, or deduct the same from
the rent then due, or which shall next become due thereon.

C H A P. LXV.

Taxes, to
whom to be
charged, &c.

An ACT annulling the marriage of John Crist, of Frederick coun-
ty, and Susannah his wife.

Passed 31 st of
Dec. 1801.

WHEREAS John Crist, of Frederick county, by his petition to this general assembly hath
set forth, that his wife Susannah had prostituted herself with a negro man, and after her
intermarriage with the said John Grist was delivered of a mulatto child in consequence thereof,
and prayed that an act might pass annulling his marriage with his said wife ; and the allegations of
said petitioner being proved to the satisfaction of this general assembly, therefore,

Preamble

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the marriage of the said John
Grist and Susannah his wife, heretofore solemnized, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, ab-
solutely and to all purposes null and void; and the said John Grist and Susannah his wife are here-
by declared to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii.

C H A P. LXVI.

Marriage de-
clared void, &c.

An ACT relative to the bonds to be hereafter given by the trea-
surers of the respective shores.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the treasurers of the respective shores,
hereafter to be appointed, shall and they are hereby required, within twenty clays after their
appointment, to give bond to the state of Maryland, with security, to be 'approved of by the go-
vernor and council, in the penalty, and according to the form, herein after directed and prescribed;
and all bonds executed in virtue of this act shall be recorded among the records of the general
court, and the original shall be returned to the governor and council, to be by them filed.

Treasurers to
give bond, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be, and it is hereby declared to be, the duty of the go-
vernor and council, at all times hereafter, when in their judgment and opinion the securities of
any treasurer appointed, or hereafter to be appointed, have or are likely to become invalid, to
demand and require such treasurer forthwith to give bond to the state of Maryland, with security,
to be approved of by the governor and council, in the penalty, and according to the form, directed
and prescribed by this act, and in case of refusal by any treasurer now appointed, or hereafter to
be appointed, to give bond, with security, as aforesaid, within twenty days after the same shall be
demanded and required by the governor and council as aforesaid, such refusal shall be, and it is
hereby declared to be, a disqualification within the constitution, and the governor and council are
hereby required to proceed forthwith to appoint a fit and proper person to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned thereby, during the recess of the general assembly, according to the constitution and form
of government.

Governor, &c.
to require them
to give bond,
&c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That hereafter the penalty of the bond to be executed in virtue of
this act by the treasurer of the western shore, and his securities, shall be in a sum not less than
fifty-four thousand dollars, and the penalty of the bond to be executed in virtue of this act by the
treasurer of the eastern shore, shall be in a sum not less than twenty thousand dollars, and the
form of said bonds respectively shall be as follows, to wit: " Know all men by these presents,
" that we ?? , are held and firmly bound unto the state of Maryland in the full and just sum
" of ?? dollars current money of Maryland, to be paid to the said state, to which payment well
Q and

Penalty and
form of the
bond.