JOHN H. STONE, Efquire, Governor.

1794.

eighty-three; and the faid agent is hereby authorifed and required to call upon
the treafurers of the refpeaive mores for an accurate ftatement of all arrearages
and balances due from fuch collectors, and fuch account fhall be furnifhed by
the faid treafurers accordingly.

CHAP.

XL.

III. And be it enacted, That the faid agent be authorifed to fuperintend the
collection of all balances due to the ftate on the auditor's books, or on open ac-
count; and the faid agent fhall have power to require payment of, and if necef-
fary to fue for and recover the fame; and the faid agent, with the approbation of
the governor and council, may make cornpofition with any fuch debtors, and
take bonds to the ftate, with fufficient fecurity, and give time for payment, not
exceeding three years from the firft day of December, feventeen hundred and
ninety-four, always requiring annual payment of the intereft, and equal annual
payments of the principal.

Of balances
on the audi-
tors books,
&c.

IV. And be it enacted, That the faid agent be authorifed to fuperintend the
collection of all monies due to the ftate for duties, fines, penalties, forfeitures
and amerciaments, and forfeited recognizances, and for ordinary, retailers and
marriage licences, and to require payment, and (if neceffary) fue for and recover
the fame; and the faid agent may allow for insolvencies, and credit any money
that the party is not chargeable with by law; and for his information of the law
he may take advice of the attorney-general in writing.

And all mo-
nies due for
duties, &c.

V. And be it enacted, That whenever there fhall be occafion to expofe to
public fale the property of any collector, or his fecurities, by virtue of any exe-
cution already iffued, or to be directed for this purpofe, the agent fhall caufe
public notice to be given of fuch fale, and fhall attend the fame, and if it fhall
appear that there is danger of lofing any part of the debt due to the ftate, and not
other wife, fhall purchafe any property fo expofed to fale for the ufe of the ftate,
in payment, or part payment, as the cafe may be, of the arrearages due by the
collectors whofe property may be fo purchafed; and any property fo purchafed for
the ufe of the ftate, the faid agent may again expofe to public auction on the
moft advantageous terms for the ufe of the ftate, and if the fame be fold on cre-
dit, the faid agent fhall take bond, with good and fufficient fecurity, to be ap-
proved of by the treafurer of the weftern fhore, from the purchafers of fuch pro-
perty; and all bonds by him fo taken fhall be depofited, with an accurate lift
thereof fubferibed by him, into the treafury of the weftern fhore, and fhall be a
lien upon the real property of fuch purchafers, and their fecurities, from the re-
fpective dates, or fo much thereof as is mentioned in the fchedule thereto annexed.

Notice to be
given of fales,
&c.

VI. And be it enacted, That the faid agent fhall have power to difpofe of all
confifcated Britifh property that remains unfold, except the property of Edmund
Jenings, of the city of London, and of Thomas Digges, formerly of Maryland,
but now refiding in Europe, and take bonds to the ftate, with fufficient feenrity,
and give time for payment, not exceeding three years from the firft day of De-
cember, feventeen hundred and ninety-four, always requiring annual payment of
the intereft, and equal annual payments of the principal.

Agent to dif-
pofe of certaia
property, <&c.

VII. And be it enacted, That the governor and council be authorifed to re-
quire new bond and fecurity from every purchafer of confifcated or other proper-
ty fold by this ftate, who has not heretofore inftalled for the fame; and provided
the faid purchafer or his fecurities, or either of them, do not, on or before the
firft day of May next, of which two months notice at leaft fhall be given in the
Annapolis, Eafton, Frederick, and one of the Baltimore news-papers, come in
and inftal the fame with the agent of this ftate, that then in all fuch cafes it
fhall and may be lawful for the agent, and he is hereby authorifed and required,
to enter upon and take back the faid property to and for the ufe of the ftate, and
as early as practicable thereafter to difpofe of the fame, on a credit of three years
from the firft day of December next, always requiring annual payments of the
whole intereft, and equal annual payments of the principal; which bonds, when
taken, fhall be a lien on the real eftate of the purchafer and his fecurities; and
I the

New bond is
be required,

&c.