1802,

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
XXVII,

newspapers, once in each week for three months, and set up at the court-house door of his county,
an advertisement, stating the name of the warehouse, the weight, gross, tare and net, the number,
and the person in whose name the same may have been inspected, of all tobacco which may have re-
mained in his warehouse for the space of four years, the owners whereof are unknown to the in-
spector; and if the owner of such tobacco shall not apply for the same within six months from the
date of such advertisement, and pay the warehouse charges due on said tobacco, and the cost of ad-
vertisement, it shall be the duty of the inspector to sell the same at public sale; and the several in-
spectors shall annually account with and pay to the levy court the amount which he may have re-
ceived for any tobacco sold as aforesaid, for the use of the county.

Court mar as-
sess money re-
ceived, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the owner of any tobacco sold as aforesaid shall, within one
year from the sale thereof, satisfy the levy court of the county wherein the same may have been
sold, that the tobacco so sold was his right and property, the said levy court shall, at the time of
laying the next county levy, assess and levy on said county, for the use of the said owner, the prin-
cipal smn which the said levy court may have received for such tobacco, deducting therefrom the
warehouse charges due thereon, together with the costs of advertising.

CHAP. XXVIII.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An actto erect a town in Mont-
gomery county, and for other purposes.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Rockville, in Montgomery county, that the commissioners appointed by the act to which this
5s a supplement did neglect to perform the several duties required of them by the said act, and the
said petitioners have prayed that new commissioners may be appointed, with power to execute the
said original act; therefore,

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Josias Hanson M'Pherson, Thomas
Orme and Richard West, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, with sufficient power to
execute the several duties required of the commissioners appointed by the said original act, in as
full and ample manner as if their names had been severally inserted therein; provided, that the said
commissioners shall meet at the court-house in the said county on or before the first day of Septem-
ber next, and then and there proceed to the execution of the said duties.

Who may

mark and
bound lots, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners aforesaid may, on a survey of the said town,
proceed to mark and bound the improved lots only where they are contiguous to those unimproved,
and where there may be squares unimproved, to mark and bound the corners thereof, agreeably to
the provisions of the said recited act.

And appoint
collectors, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as the commissioners aforesaid shall have performed the
duties required of then by the said original act, it shall and may be lawful for .such commissioner
to appoint two proper persons as collectors, with full power to receive and collect from each pro-
prietor or proprietors, of any lot or lots in the town , aforesaid, his, her or their respective propor-
tion or proportions of the expenses which may be incurred in the execution of the said act, and if
any such proprietor or proprietors as aforesaid shall not, within three months after notice thereof
by one of the said collectors, pay his, her or their respective proportion of the said expences, it
shall and may be lawful for such collector to compel payment thereof from such delinquent proprie-
tor or proprietors, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such proprietor or proprietors,
or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay his, her or their respective proportions of the ex-
pences aforesaid, and the expences of such sale, or by a sale of the lot or lots of such proprietor
or proprietors as aforesaid, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay his, her or their re-
«pective proportion or proportions of said expences, and the expences incurred on the sale of such
lot or lots.

Money to be
paid over, &c

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the collectors to be appointed in virtue of this act pay over all
sums of money which they may collect and receive by virtue thereof to the persons who may be
entitled to receive the same.

Collecters to be
allowed, &c.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners may make such allowance to the said
collectors, as a compensation for their trouble in executing the duties required of them bv this act,
as the said commissioners in their discretion may think necessary, which allowance shall be collected
and