ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1805.

Spencer, Benjamin Massey and John Lathrin, together with the said William Briscoe, and James
Blakiston and Edward Wright, be, and they and each of them are, hereby appointed commissioners
for the purpose contemplated by the said original act, and all the powers vested in the commission-
ers appointed by the said original act be and they are hereby vested in the commissioners above
named, or a majority of them, in as full and ample manner as if they had been appointed by the said
Original act; provided, that before the said commissioners herein named shall proceed to act as such,

they shall enter into such bond as is required by the second section in the said original act which
said bond shall be recorded in the clerk's office of Kent county, and upon an office copy thereof, a
suit or suits may be instituted against the obligors therein, or any of them, or their or any of their
legal representatives, for any breach or noncompliance with the condition thereof.

C H A P. LXXVII.

C H A P.

LXXVI.

ACT to authorise and empower the levy court of Anne-Arun-
del county to assess a sum of money for the purpose therein men-
tioned.

WHEREAS Anne Welch, of Anne-Arundel county, by her petition to this general assembly.
has set forth, that she is very poor, nearly eighty years old, and from the numerous infirmi-
ties attendant on old age is rendered totally incapable of procuring a support by labour, and prayed

that a law may pass authorising the levy court of Anne-Arundel county to. assess and levy a sum of
money for her support; therefore,

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 directed and empowered, at their levy courts annually,
to assess and levy on said county a sum of money, not exceeding thirty dollars, for the support and
maintenance of said Anne Welch, and that the same be collected and paid annually to the aforesaid

Anne Welch, or order, by the collector of said county, agreeably to the order of the levy court
aforesaid.

CHAP. LXXVIII.

Passed 25th of
January, 1806.

An ACT authorising the late collectors of public taxes in Cecil

county to complete their several collections,

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petitions of James Cochran and
Samuel Cowden, two of the collectors of the first and second districts in Cecil county, that
from various causes therein set forth, they have not been able to complete their several collections
within the time limitted by law, and that there is still due them, as collectors of the first and second
districts in said county, considerable sums of money, and praying, that a law may pass enabling them
to collect the same: And whereas William Knight, the collector of the third district, of Cecil
county, is dead, and David. Patton, of said district, is appointed in his stead to complete the same;
therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said James Cochran, Samuel
Cowden and David Patton, be and they are hereby severally authorised to collect, until the first day
of July, eighteen hundred and six, all balances due them as collectors of the several districts of Ce-
cil county for which they were severally appointed collectors for the year eighteen hundred and five,
in the same manner as they might or could have done within the time limitted by law, any law to
the contrary notwithstanding.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of each of the said collectors, before he pro-
ceeds to execute or distrain the property of any person or persons for taxes or public dues in virtue
this act, to deliver to such person or persons chargeable with the same, at least twenty days pre-
vious to levying such execution or distress, an account, written in words at full length, of the taxes
fancied of him, her or them, with an affidavit annexed, if required, that no part or parcel there-
of hath been received, nor any thing as security or satisfaction, for the same, more than the credit
even, to the best of his knowledge.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before either of the collectors aforesaid derive any benefit from
under this act, he shall lodge a copy of his collection books in the clerk's office of Cecil county,
be open for the inspection of all persons interested in the same.

Passed 25th of
January, 1806.