1795.

L A W S of M A R Y L AN D.

C H A P.
XX.

and collectors refpectively, fhall, at leaft five days before execution or diftrefs of
property for the arrearages aforefaid, deliver to the perfon or perfons charged, or
leave at his or her place of abode, a proved account, ftating the taxes and the
amount of fees due to the officers refpectively, together with all payments that
may have been in any manner made by fuch perfon, and the balance then due
thereon, and if the perfon or perfons owing fuch taxes and officers fees fhall
neglect or refufe to pay the fame, it fhall and may be lawful for the faid Samuel
Maffit and Thomas O'Bryon refpectively, to collect the fame by execution or dif-
trefs of property of the perfon or perfons fo refufing or neglecting, and to fell
and difpofe thereof, at the expiration of ten days, exclufive of the day of fervice
and day of fale, on giving five days notice, by advertifement at the moft public
places of the neighbourhood, and at the court-houfe door of the county, of the
day and hour of fale.

Provifo.

Commiffion
allowed.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That all the books of the faid
fheriffs, and their refpective deputies, in which their accounts as fheriffs and col-
lectors are ftated and kept, fhall be depofited in the hands of fome perfon in the
county town of their refpective counties, to be infpected and examined by any
perfon or perfons who fhall apply for the fame, in order to afcertain any payments
that may have been made upon his, her or their account.

IV. And be it enacted, That the faid Samuel Maffit and Thomas O'Bryon
fhall have the fame commiffion on the collection aforementioned as if their
offices were ft ill unexpired.

C H A P. XXI.

Paffed De-
cember 24.

An ACT for erecting a town at the mouth of the river Sufque-
hanna, in Caecil county, and for appointing commiffioners to
regulate and govern the fame.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is reprefented to this general affembly, that George Gale,
of Caecil county, has furveyed and laid out into lots a parcel of land
near the mouth of the river Sufquehanna, in Caecil county, for a
town, and called the fame by the name of Chefapeake, and that fundry perfons
are difpofed to purchafe lots, and make confiderable improvements thereon; that
it would greatly conduce to the profperity and advantage of the faid town, and
fecure the title of purchafers to lots in the fame, were commiffioners appointed
to furvey, afcertain and perpetuate, the boundaries of the lots throughout the
faid town, and inverted with powers to fuperintend and regulate the fame ;

Commiffion-
ers appointed,
&c.

II. Be it enacted, by the General Affembly of Maryland, That Philip Thomas,
Tobias Rudolph, Jofeph Baxter, Richard Snowden, Thomas and Jonathan
Mifflin, or any three of them, be and hereby are appointed commiffioners, to fur-
vey and lay out into lots all that parcel of land heretofore furveyed and laid out
by the faid George Gale, agreeably to the furvey thereof as by him heretofore
made, and the fame, when furveyed, to lay out into lots, ftreets, lanes and al-
leys, as by him, the faid George Gale, heretofore done, and a correct and, accu-
rate plot thereof returned to the clerk of Caecil county, by him to be recorded
among the land records of the faid county, and kept in the faid office, and the
fame, or a copy thereof, fhall always be evidence as to the ftreets, lanes and al-
leys, and the bounds and lines of lots, in the laid town.

Lots to be
bounded, &c.

III. Be it enacted, That the faid commiffioners, or a major part of them,
fhall caufe all the lots in the faid town to be fubftantially and fairly bounded and
numbered, and from time to time hereafter fee that the faid boundaries be kept
up and preferved.

How vacan-
cies are to be
filled.

IV. And be it enacted, That on the death, removal or refignation, of any of
the faid commiffioners, the major part of the remaining commiffioners fhall ap-
point another to ferve in the ftead of fuch commiffioner fo dying, removing or
refigning.