ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

CHAP. LXXII.

1808.

An ACT to repeal an act, entitled, An act for the punishment of
forgery, and for other purposes.

Passed 22d of
Dec. 1808.

WHEREAS universal experience hath proved, that the commission of crimes is more effectually
restrained by the certainty than the severity of punishments, and as the principles both of
humanity and sound policy require that capital punishments should be inflicted in cases only where
the general welfare evidently and imperiously demands it; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the act, entitled, An act for the
punishment of forgery, and for other purposes, be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAP. LXXIII.

An act repeal-
ed.

A Supplement to the ad, entitled, An act for quieting possessions,
and securing and confirming the estates of purchasers.

Passed 23d of
Dec. 1808.

WHEREAS by an error in engrossing the said act of assembly, the word " heretofore" in the
fourth section of the engrossed bill has been inserted instead of the word "hereafter" in
the original bill which passed both branches of the legislature; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said act of assembly shall have
the same force and operation, and receive the same construction as if the said error had not been
committed, and the word " hereafter" had been inserted in the fourth section of the said engrossed
bill in the place of the word " heretofore. "

CHAP. LXXIV.

Act to have
force, &c.

An ACT for the relief of Francis Rawlings, of Anne-Arundel
county.

Passed 23d of
Dec. 1808,

WHEREAS it has been represented unto this general assembly, by the petition of Richard B.
Watts, the next friend of Francis Rawlings, that the said Francis Rawlings has been for
many years deprived of his reason, and is very poor; and in as much as the particular situation of
the said Francis Rawlings renders it unsafe to place him in the poors house,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of
Anne-Arundel county be and they are hereby authorised and directed to assess and levy on the
assessable property of said county a sum of money, not exceeding thirty dollars, for the support and
maintenance of the said Francis Rawlings, and that the same be collected and paid to Richard B.
Watts, or his order, by the collector of said county.

CHAP. LXXV.

Justices to levy
money, &c.

An ACT to make a further provision for the erection of a new court-
house for Baltimore county.

Passed 23d of
Dec. 1808.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Baltimore county be
and they are hereby authorised and required to assess and levy upon the assessable property of
said county, in four successive annual instalments, a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars, the
first instalment to be assessed by the said court at their first session after the passage of this act for
the purpose of laying the county levy, and to be collected by the collector of said county.

Court to levy
money, &c.

11. AND EE IT ENACTED, That the said sum of money shall be collected and paid over agreeably
to the provisions of the act, entitled, An act to provide for the erection of a new court-house for
Baltimore county, passed at November session, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, and
the commissioners named and appointed by the said act, on receipt of the said sum of money, shall
apply the same to the erection and completion of the said new court-house, and account therefor
pursuant to the provisions of the above recited act; provided, that in no one year shall the said levy
court assess and levy on the said county more than ten thousand dollars fer the purpose aforesaid,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

To be collected
and paid over,
&c.