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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1813

'passing over their lands, the said commissioners taking into conside-
ration the advantages as well as disadvantages that each landholder
enjoys, or suffers by the said road; and they are directed to make re-
turn of the damages so ascertained, if any, to Harford county Levy
court, and the Levy court are required to levy the damages on the as-
sessable property of Harford county, and have the money collected
and paid over to the persons entitled to the same.

Compensa-
tion.

2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall be entitled
to receive two dollars a day for each day that they shall be necessari-
1y engaged in the duty enjoined by this act.

Passed Dec.
11, 1823.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 8.

An act for the relief of Jacob Taylor.
Whereas, it is represented to the General Assembly of Maryland
by the petition of Jacob Taylor, that he is now and has been for nine
months last past confined in the jail of Baltimore county for debt, and
for no other cause whatever, and that he is precluded from the bene-
fits and privileges of the insolvent laws of Maryland from the want of
citizenship, or the necessary previous residence within the state of
Maryland: And whereas, the peculiar circumstances attendant upon
his case, and the apparent absence of all fraud or intention on the
part of the petitioner to evade the payment of his debts by coming in-
to the state of Maryland, render it right and proper that as relates to
the said Jacob Taylor, the general prerequisite of residence for two
years within this state should be dispensed with—Therefore,

Insolvency.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said
Jacob Taylor be, and he is hereby authorised and enabled to avail
himself of all the benefits and privileges of the insolvent laws of Ma-
ryland, in the same manner as though he were a citizen of the state of
Maryland; and that the court, judge or commissioner, as the case may
be, to whom any application may be preferred for the benefits of the
insolvent laws of this state by the said Jacob Taylor, be, and they are
hereby authorised and required to admit the said Jacob Taylor to all
those benefits, without requiring at his hands any proof of citizenship
or previous residence within the state of Maryland, or without requir-
ing of him any other proofs, acts and performance than those which
are necessary on the part of a citizen of the state of Maryland, in or-

Proviso.

der to the obtention of the insolvent laws of this state:. Provided, the
said Jacob Taylor, shall satisfy the judge, court or commissioners, to
whom he may make application for the benefit of the said insolvent
laws, that he did not remove to, or come into this state with the intent
to apply for the benefit of said insolvent laws.

Passed Dec.
11, 1823.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 9.

An Act to appoint Trustees for the Little Falls Meeting-House, and Forrest
Meeting-House in Harford County.
Whereas it is represented to this legislature by petition or me-
morial of that part of the Society of Friends belonging to the Little
Falls Monthly Meeting in Harford County. That the lots or par-
cels of ground on which the Little Falls Meeting-House, and the
Forrest Meeting-House, are erected, were heretofore conveyed to
trustees or others for the use and benefit of that portion of the society
belonging to the Little Falls Monthly Meeting aforesaid, and that
the said lots or parcels of lands with the meeting houses and other
buildings erected thereon may be lost to the members composing
the said monthly meeting by the death of the present trustees, there