RESOLUTION

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fifty dollars to make two copies of the platt of the public lands westward of Fork
Cumberland, one of them to be deposited in the clerks office of Allegany county,
for the inspection of all persons wishing to see the same, and the other, in the
land office tor the western shore, and thai the treasurer be, and he is hereby au-
thorised and required to pay to said person as the governor and council may
contract with, on the order of the governor, any sum not exceeding the sum
aforesaid.

Dec. Ses. 1823

No. 23.
Resolved, That the treasurer of the western shore, pay to Susanna Brewer, of
the city of Annapolis, or to her order, during life, in quarter annual payments,
the half pay of a sergeant, as a further remuneration for her husband Thomas
Brewer's services during the revolutionary war.

Passed Feb.
24, 1824.
Susanna Brew-
er.

No. 24.
Resolved, That the governor and council cause the room lately occupied by
the register of wills for Anne Arundel county, and the old chancery room (not
now used by the register) to be fitted up and made suitable for the reception of
the records and papers belonging to the office of the court of appeals, and that
when the said rooms shall be fitted up as aforesaid, the clerk of the court of ap-
peals shall remove the records and papers belonging to his office, now deposited
in the room adjacent to the land office, to the rooms so to be fitted up; and that
the last mentioned room be appropriated to the register of the land office, for
the safe keeping of such records of his office, as are now liable to injury from
their situation in said office.

Passed Feb.
24, 1824.
Public offi-
cers apart-
ments.

No. 25,
Resolved, That the clerk of the court of appeals, be, and he is hereby di-
rected to remove the records belonging to his office, now deposited in the room
adjacent to the land office, to the room lately occupied by the register of wills
for Anne Arundel county, and that the room so directed to be vacated by him,
be appropriated to the register of the land office for the safe keeping of such
records of his office as are now liable to injury from the situation in said office.
Resolved, That the executive be, and they are hereby authorised to direct
the register of the land office, to cause liber J. B. No. B, and liber J, B, No. A, to
be transcribed, and certain other records to lie secured by transcribing such
parts of them as may require it, and repairing or rebinding them, and that they
draw on the treasurer for such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to
carry this resolution into effect, and that the treasurer pay the same out of any
unappropriated money in the treasury.

Passed Feb.
24, 1824.
Apartments
and records.

No. 26.
Whereas, it appears on the pension list furnished by the treasurer, that there is a
considerable sum of money laying in the treasury appropriated to the payment
of invalid pensioners, which has not been demanded as far back as eight or ten
years; And whereas, it is presumed that many or all the individuals interested
in said appropriations, not demanded within the last two years, are dead, and it
appearing desirable that some period should ho prescribed, for all future de-
mands on the treasury of a similar nature, and that the surplus now remaining
in the treasury should be disposed of for the advantage of the state—Therefore,
Resolved, That all monies heretofore appropriated for the payment of the
pensioners, and not demanded within the last two years, shall 'revert to the
state, subject to the disposition, of the legislature, and that all appropriations
hereafter to be made fora similar object, shall be demanded within eighteen
months thereafter, under the penalty of a forfeiture of said pension; Provided
nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to debar any pen-
sioner, or his heirs, from the payment of any pension heretofore granted, if said
pensioner or his heirs shall demand the same legally authenticated within twelve
months after the passage of this resolution. And provided also, that it shall be
the duty of the treasurer to have this preamble and resolution published in such,
newspapers as the executive shall deem expedient for the information of those
concerned, and the names of all persons affected by this resolution.

Passed Feb.
24, 1824.
Arrears to
pensioners.

No. 27.
Resolved, That the treasurer of the western shore, pay to James Fling,' of $
Montgomery county, or to his order, during life, in quarter annual payments,
the half pay of a sergeant, as a further compensation for his services during

the revolutionary war.

Passed Feb.
24, 1824.
James Fling.

No. 28.
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the governor and
council be, and they are hereby authorised to hear and examine into the alle-

gations, evidence and circumstances stated or referred to in the memorial of So-
lomon Lowe, contractor of militia supplies, and to decide according to equity,
& the right of the matter, whether the action at law now pending in Talbot comi-
ty court, in the name of the state against the said Solomon Lowe, on his bond,
executed as a contractor of militia supplies, on the sixth day of April eighteen

Passed Feb.
25, 1824.
Solomon
Lowe.