LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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of Maryland, That the justices of the Levy court of Anne
Arundel county, are hereby authorised and empowered,
and they shall at their next Levy court, and at their Le-
vy court annually, so long as they shall see cause, levy
on the assessable property of said county, a sum of money
not exceeding thirty dollars for the support and main-
tenance of Elizabeth Brewer, of said county, and the
same shall be collected and paid over to the said Eliza-
beth Brewer, or her order, in the same manner as other
county charges are collected and paid in said county.

DEC. SESS-
1814.

CHAPTER 113.

A supplement to an act entitled, "An act providing for
the calling out and detaching the militia of this state and
for other purposes.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the treasurers of the respective shores
of this state be, and they are hereby authorised and di-
rected to pay annually in quarterly payments, half pay
to the officers, non commissioned officers, musicians and
privates of the militia of this state, who have been or
hereafter may be disabled while in service of this state as
a remuneration for the injury they may or shall have re-
ceived.

Passed Jan. 31

1815.

Persons disa-
bled to re-
ceive half-pay.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any officer,
non commissioned officer, musician or private shall be enti-
tled to receive half pay, under the provisions of this act, he
shall produce to the treasurer of the shore on which he re-
sides, certificates on oath or affirmation, as the case may
be, from the surgeon or surgeon's mate of the regiment or
extra battalion (as the case may be) to which he belongs,
and from a physician of reputation of the county in which
he resides, and from the officer under whose command he
was when the disability occurred stating their opinion of the
nature of the disability of such officer, non commissioned
officer, musician or private and in what degree it pre-
vents him from obtaining a subsistance by manual labor,
which certificates shall entitle him to receive half pay for

Certificates.

life; Provided such certificate shall declare the disabili-
ty to be of an incurable or permanent nature; but if de-
clared to be only of a transcient or temporary nature, then
such half-pay shall continue only so long as such dis-
ability shall remain.

Proviso.

3. BE IT ENACTED, That if at any time the gov-
ernor and council shall become satisfied that a pension is
paid to any person not entitled under a liberal construc-
tion of the provisions of this act, they shall direct the trea-
surer to discontinue the payment of said pension.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after the
passage of this act, no sale, transfer or mortgage of the
whole or any part of the pension payable to any non-com-
missioned officer, musician or private, under the provisions
of this act, before the same becomes due, shall be valid.

Executive may
discontinue
petitions.

Mortgages &c.
shall not be va-
lid.