JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, NOVEMBER,

1802,

in designated, and to allow the said Sarah Eastern an annual pension, not exceeding thirty dollars,
to be paid at such time as the said trustees shall direct; the amount of said pension shall be levied
in the same manner as the other expences of the poor-house in. the said county.

CHAP. LI.

CHAP.

L.
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An ACT to empower the levy court of Baltimore county to assess a
sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803,

WHEREAS Thomas Ford, of Baltimore county, by his petition to this general assembly, has
set forth, that he is upwards of seventy years of age, and so afflicted with the palsy as to
be unable to maintain himself by labour, and that he has, among other children, a son named John,
about fourteen years old, who is in a state of insanity, and prays that a law may pass for the support
of himself and his son aforesaid out of the poor-house; and the prayer of the said petitioner appear-
ing reasonable, therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Baltimore county
shall be and are hereby directed and empowered, at their levy courts annually, so long as they may
see cause, to assess and levy on said county a sum of money, not exceeding fifty dollars, for the
support and maintenance of the said Thomas Ford, and his son John, who is insane, and that the
same be collected and paid annually to the aforesaid Thomas Ford by the collector of Baltimore
county, agreeably to the order of the levy court aforesaid.

CHAP. LII.

Court to assess
money, &c.

An ACT authorising Lambert Beard, a collector of Caecil county,
to complete his collection.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803.

WHEREAS Lambert Beard, collector of the first district of Caecil county, hath set forth, by
his petition to this general assembly, that he has been unable to complete his collection for
the year eighteen hundred and one, owing to the long and severe indisposition of his deputy, and,
prays that a longer time may be: allowed him to complete the same; therefore,

Preamble;

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the. General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Lambert Beard be and he-
is hereby authorised to collect all balances due him, as collector for the year eighteen hundred and
one, at any time before the first day of September next, in the same manner as he could or might
have done within the time limitted by law, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

L. Beard au-
thorised to col-
left, &c.

III. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Lambert Beard, before he proceeds
to execute or distrain the property of any person or persons for taxes, shall, at least thirty days
before such execution or distress, deliver to the person chargeable with the same an account, writ-
ten in words at full length, of the taxes demanded of him, her or them, with an affidavit annexed
to the same, that no part thereof, nor any thing insecurity or satisfaction, far the-same, more than
the credits given, hath been received.

CHAP. LIII.

Proviso

A Supplement to the act entitled, An act authorising the laying out
a certain road in Frederick county.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803

WHEREAS by an act of assembly, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and one,
entitled, An act authorising, the laying out a certain road in Frederick county, and to which
this is a supplement, the commissioners therein named are authorised and directed to open and clear
a road, thirty feet wide, from the road leading from Petersburgh, in the commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, to the town of Westminster, in Frederick county, to begin at or near where said road crosses
Big Pipe creek, and near the upper end of Peter Erb's meadow, and to run in a direct line to inter-
sect the road leading from Hanover, in the said commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the aforesaid
town of Westminster, in Frederick county, at the first angle on said road, on the north side of Big
Pipe creek: And whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Andrew
Shriver, the petitioner in the said original act named, and by Peter Erb and John Erb, through
whose lands the said road will pass, that the said original act cannot be carried into effect without
great inconvenience to the said petitioners, unless a discretionary power is given to said commis-
sioners to deviate from a direct line in the laying out and opening said road, and have prayed that
the same may be done; therefore,

Preamble