1842

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 300.

CHAPTER 299.

Passed March
10, 1813.

An act to provide for the payment of the Journal of Accounts.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it appears by the journal of accounts of this
session that there is due from this State to sundry persons,
the sum of forty-seven thousand seven hundred and seventy
one dollars and fifty-three cents — therefore,

Treasurer au-
thorised to pay

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland^
That the Treasurer for the Western Shore, be and he is
hereby authorised and directed to pay the several persons
named in the said journal, their executors, administrators or
assigns, or to such of them as shall offer to receive the same,
the several sums of money allowed to them respectively as
they appear to have settled and ascertained by said journal
out of any money in the treasury subject to appropriation
by the General Assembly, and to obviate the inconveniences
which may be occasioned by the failure of the treasurer
elect to enter on the duties of his office, it is further enacted
that the chairman of the committee of claims of the house
of delegates, be and he is hereby authorised and directed at
any time during the continuance of this session, to issue to
such persons as shall apply for the same, certificates show-
ing the sums to which such persons are respectively enti-
tled by said journal, which said certificate shall be transfer-
able by endorsment of the persons in whose favor the same
shall have been issued and in the hands of the holders there-
of, shall be conclusive evidence of the right of the holders
to receive from the treasury when opened in payment there-
of the sums of money therein mentioned.

CHAPTER 300.

Passed March
10, 1843.

Preamble.

An act to incorporate the New Middleburgh School.

WHEREAS application has been made to this general assem-
bly for the passage of a law to incorporate George Crabbs,
John Roons and others, of Carroll county — therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That George Crabbs, John Koons, Walter J. Odal,
Charles Saity and Daniel Shunk, be and they are hereby
appointed the first board of trustees of the New Middle-
burgh School, and the said trustees and their successors to
be elected in the manner hereinafter directed, shall be and
they are hereby declared to be one community, corpora-