ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

manner as if the said Nathaniel L. Chew and Peter Miles had actually resided within this state
agreeably to the provisions of the said act, and the supplement thereto.

CHAP.
XCV.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges be and they are hereby authorised to extend to Ro-
bert Nesbit the benefit of the said acts of assembly, without his obtaining the assent, in writing, of
two thirds of his creditors, in as full and ample a manner as if the said Robert Nesbit had obtained
the assent, in writing, of two thirds of his creditors, agreeably to the provision of the said act,
and the supplement thereto.
CHAP. XCVI.

And to R. Nes-
bit, &c.

An ACT authorising Nathaniel Oldham, Absalom Oldham and
James Cockran, to complete their collections.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS Nathaniel Oldham, collector of the first collection district, and Absalom Oldham,
collector of the third collection district, and James Cochran, collector of the second collec-
tion district, of Caecil county, hath set forth, by their several petitions to this general assembly,
that they have been unable to complete their collections for the year eighteen hundred and seven,
owing to the low price of grain, and little demand for it, and the great scarcity of circulating cash
among the people, and other unavoidable causes, and pray that longer time may be allowed them to
complete the same; therefore,

Preamble.

IT. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Nathaniel Oldham, Ab-
salom Oldham and James Cochran, be and they are hereby authorised to collect all balances due them,
as collectors for the year eighteen hundred and seven, at any time before the first day of April,
eighteen hundred and eight, in the same manner as they could or might have done within the time
limitted by law, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

N. Oldham, &c,
may collect, &c.

III. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Nathaniel Oldham, Absalom Oldham
and James Cochran, before they proceed 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 or per.
sons chargeable with the same, an account, written 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 in
security or satisfaction for the same, hath been received, more than the credit given.

CHAP. XCVII.

To deliver an
account, &c.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for founding a college in the
city or precincts of Baltimore, by the name of Baltimore College.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS the trustees of Baltimore college, by their memorial to this general assembly, have
represented, that it would facilitate the business of the institution if a smaller number of the
trustees than arc required by the original act, were authorised to transact the business of the col-
lege, and have prayed a law may be passed for that purpose; and this general assembly being desirous
to aid and promote the institution, therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the principal and vice-principal of
said college shall, ex officio, be trustees thereof, and any number of the trustees, not less than seven,
of the said college, for the time being, when duly assembled, shall have all the authority and power
given to the trustees by the original law to which this is a supplement.

Principal, &c.
to be trustees,
&c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, or any number of them, not being less than
seven, shall have full power and authority to sell and dispose of the tickets in the lottery heretofore
authorised, either in the city of Baltimore or any other part of this state, and to draw the same,
without paying any tax therefor to the corporation of the city of Baltimore, any law to the contrary
notwithstanding.

CHAP. XCVIII.

Trustees era-
powered to
sell, &c.

An ACT to vacate a certain certificate therein mentioned.

WHEREAS a judgment has been obtained by the state of Maryland against William Rose,
James Booker, Philemon Willis and Richard Barnaby, securities for William Stoddart Bond,
upon a bond or bonds given by them for the composition money due on a certificate called Bones
Meadows, and the said securities praying to be released from the payment of the principal of the
said judgment, upon their paying up the interest due, and relinquishing all claim to the certificate

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.
Preamble.