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No. 44.
Resolved, That the printer to the state be allowed twenty days in addition to
the time how limited by law for printing the laws, and votes and proceedings of
the present session, and that the treasurer of the western shore advance to him the
sum of six hundred dollars, in part of the salary allowed him on the civil list for
the present year, upon his giving bond and security as required by the law of De-
cember session eighteen hundred and sixteen, chapter ninety eight.
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Passed Feb. 13
In favour of the
printer to the
state.
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No. 45.
WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly by the petition of George
D. Parnham, that a warrant of resurvey, granted out of the land office to Ann
Parnham of Charles county, was executed on the ninth day of December, eighteen
hundred and seventeen, and that the said resurvey included lands as vacancy
which, though never patented, had been fairly purchased of the late proprietary
government, and fully paid for, and to which the said Ann Parnham and George
D. Parnham have derived an equitable right, the former of an estate for life, and
the Utter of a reversion in fee on the determination of said life; and that a special
warrant granted out of the land office to said George D Parnham, of Charles
county, was executed on the tenth of December, eighteen hundred and seventeen,
and that the whole of the land included therein had also been purchased as afore-
said, and paid for, though never patented, and that the said George D. Parnham
had derived an equitable and just title thereto; and the said petitioner, praying that
patents may issue for the lands included in both the said surveys, without the pay-
ment of the money usually required for composition and improvements, and the
prayer of the petitioner appearing just and equitable, Therefore,
Resolved, That the register of the land office for the western shore, be and
he is hereby authorised and directed, to grant a patent to Ann Parnham, of Charles
county, for a tract or parcel of land called Parnham's Amendment; surveyed for
the said Ann Parnham, by virtue of a warrant of resurvey granted to said Ann
Parnham out of the land office, on the thirtieth day of April, in the year eighteen
hundred and seventeen, agreeably to life certificate of the. surveyor of Charles
county, bearing date the ninth day of December eighteen hundred and seventeen,
without requiring the payment of any money for composition or improvement
thereon; Provided, that all other legal charges for obtaining a patent, are first
complied with.
Resolved, That the register Of the land office for the western shore be and he
is hereby authorised and directed, to. grant a patent to George D. Parnham, of
Charles county, for a tract or parcel of land called Parnham's Triangle, surveyed
for the said Parnham, by virtue of a special warrant granted to said Parnham out
of the land office on the thirtieth, day of April, eighteen hundred and seventeen,
without requiring the payment of any money for composition or improvements
thereon; Provided, that all other legal charges for obtaining a patent are first com-
plied with.
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Passed Feb. 13
Directing pa-
tents to issue
for certain
lands.
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No. 46.
Whereas, it is essentially necessary that the decisions which have taken place,
and which may hereafter take place, in the superior courts of this state, should be
generally known throughout the state, and that encouragement should be given to
reporters of such decisions; Therefore,
Resolved, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby direct-
ed, to purchase from the reporters of the decisions which have taken place, and
which may hereafter take place, in the superior courts of this state, seventy-five
copies of those which have already been published, and the like number of copies
of those which may hereafter be published, and to pay the amount thereof out of
any money in the treasury.
Resolved, That the governor and council cause the said books as they shall
be purchased to be forwarded and distributed as follows: To the court of appeals
for each shore, two copies; to the court of chancery one copy; to each county court
two copies; to Baltimore city and county courts two copies: to each orphans court
one copy; to the general Assembly four copies; and to the executive one copy; to
the land office for the western shore one copy; and to the land office for the eastern
shore one copy.
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Passed Feb. 13
To purchase
decisions in
the superior
courts.
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