LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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manner as the said Benjamin Y. Bowen could or might
have done.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Burgess Willett
or any person or persons employed by him, be and they
are hereby authorised and empowered at any time previous
to the first day of January eighteen hundred and sixteen,
to proceed and collect by execution, if necessary, the
county tax and officers' fees for the years eighteen hun-
dred ami thirteen and eighteen hundred and fourteen,
which were put in the hands of the said Robert W. Flem-
ing, late sheriff and collector aforesaid in the said years
for collection, in the same manner as the said Robert W.
Fleming could have done; and to be entitled to receive
the same fees in every case where he may be compelled
to distrain for any of the said officers' fees and county tax
as the said Robert W. Fleming would have been entitled
to receive fur similar services as collector and sheriff a-
foresaid.

Dec. Sess.
1814.

May collect.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the du-
ty of the said Parker Bowen and Burgess Willett, before
either of them proceed to execute or disdain the proper-
ty of any person or persons for taxes or public dues in
virtue of this act, to deliver to such person or persons
chargeable with the same at least thirty clays previous to
levying such execution or distress, an account writ-
ten in words at full length, of the taxes demanded of
him, her or them, with an affidavit annexed if required,
that they respectively have not received any part thereof,
nor any thing as security or satisfaction for the same more

than credit given to the best of his knowledge.

Shall deliver
accounts.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Parker
Bowen and Burgess Willett, before they respectively de-
rive any benefit from or under this act, shall lodge the
collection books of the said Benjamin Y. Bowen, and Ro-
bert W. Fleming respectively in the clerks' offices of Cal-
vert and Montgomery counties, respectively to be opened
for the inspection of all persons interested in the same.

Books to be
lodged.

CHAPTER 108.

An act extending the benefit of the Insolvent Laws to cer-
tain petitioners therein mentioned.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Joseph Myers, Thomas Morgan, William
Ball, John Fisher, John Randall, John West, Joseph
Stall, Thomas Claudesly, John B. Gill, Benjamin Solo-
mon, John B. Jauffret, Samuel M'Keel, Bernard Dor-
nin, Reuben Long, John Craggs, Jacob Gettig, Gabriel
Thomas, John S. Home, John M. A. Zollickoffer and E-
lijah Bean of Baltimore city and county; Robert Hen-
derson of Frederick county; Thomas Wayman of Tal-
bot county; Joseph, Fitzpatrick of Anne Arundel coun-

Passed Jan.

31, 1815.

Persons enti-
tled.