1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 117.

CHAPTER 116.

Passed Feb.
20, 1845.

An act to allow William Bryan, Trustee of William and
Lewis N. Sewell, further time to complete his collections
for the Third Collection District of Anne Arundel Coun-
ty, for the year eighteen hundred and forty, forty-one,
and forty-two, and further time to complete his collec-
tions as trustee as aforesaid for city and primary School
Taxes for the City of Annapolis, for the year eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, and also to allow said Bryan,
as Collector of the Third Collection District of said
County, further time to complete his collections for the
year eighteen hundred and forty-three.

Authorised
to collect.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William Bryan, trustee of William and
Lewis N. Sewell, deceased, former collector of county
taxes, for Anne Arundel county, Maryland, for the third
collection district of said county, for the years eighteen
hundred and forty, forty-one and forty-two, and former
collector for city and primary school taxes for the city of
Annapolis, in the State aforesaid, for the year eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, and the said William Bryan, as
collector of the third collection district of said county, for
the year eighteen hundred and forty-three, be and he is
hereby authorised and empowered to collect any tax or
balance of taxes, now remaining due and uncollected by
him in said collection district, or in the city of Annapolis, as
aforesaid, either as trustee as aforesaid, or as collector as
aforesaid, in the same manner as he could or might have

Make affida-
vit.

done within the time limited by law.
SEC. 2 And be it enacted, That the said William Bryan,
either as trustee or collector as aforesaid, shall in every in-
stance before he shall proceed to the collection of any tax-
es as aforesaid, make affidavit before some justice of the
peace for said county, that the same remains due and un-
paid, and that he hath not received any part thereof, other

In force one
year.

than the credits given.
SEC. 3 And be it enacted, That this act shall be and
continue in force one year and no longer.

CHAPTER 117.

Passed Feb.
12, 1845.

A further supplement to an act relating to the Manumission
of Negro Slaves.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by an act entitled, an act relating to negroes,
and to repeal the acts of Assembly therein mentioned, pass-