CHARLES RIDGELY, (of Hampton) Esq. governor.

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the support of Ebenezer Truitt; and that the levy court of
Caroline county be, and they are hereby authorised to levy on
the assessable property of Caroline county so long as they shall
see fit, twenty five dollars annually, for the support of Casson
Fountain.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy courts of the
several counties aforesaid, shall cause the said respective sums
to be collected in the manner other county charges are collect-
ed, and to be paid to the persons herein named respectively, or
to his or her order.

Dec. Sess.
Collection.

CHAPTER 171.

An act to authorise the collectors of the county taxes of the
several counties of this state to execute deeds of Conveyance
in the cases therein mentioned.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED By the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all cases where any collector of the coun-
ty taxes hath made or shall make sale of any lands or tene-
ments, for the taxes due thereon, and hath or shall die or re-
move from said county without miking a deed of conveyance
of the same, or shall refuse to make a deed for the same, the
commissioners of the tax of such county, upon application of
the purchaser or purchasers, or his, her or their legal represen-
tatives, shall order and direct the collector for the time being in
such county to execute a deed of conveyance to such purchaser
or purchasers, or his, her or their legal representatives for the
lands sold and purchased as aforesaid.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That such deed of convey-
ance being acknowledged and recorded according to law, shall
be as operative and of equal force in law, as if the collector
who made or shall make such sale, had executed the said deed
of conveyance.

Passed Jan.

25, 1816.

Deed.

Shall be val-

id.

CHAPTER. 172.

A supplement to the act entitled, an act to incorporate a compa-
ny to make a turnpike road from or near Baltimore city in
Baltimore county, through Liberty Town in Frederick coun-
ty, to Hager's Town in Washington County
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the president, managers and company of the
Baltimore, Liberty and Hager's Town Turnpike Company, be
and they are hereby authorised and empowered to extend said
road from Hager's Town, to intersect the Cumberland Turn-
pike Road hereafter to be made, at some point which may ap-
pear to them most advisable, and the said company shall be
subject to and governed by the same rules and regulations as
be prescribed by the original act to which this is a supplement,

Passed Jan.
25, 1816.

May extend.

CHAPTER 173. An act to authorise the sheriffs and collectors of the several
Counties of this state to complete their collections and for
other purposes.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the late sheriffs and collectors of the several
counties of this state, whose authority for making collections
expired within the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen,
be and they hereby are authorised and empowered to collect

Passed Jan.
23, 1816.

Collection of

late sheriffs.