J O H N H E N R Y, Efquire, Governor.

1797.

III. And be it enacted, That the faid bonds, when executed as aforefaid,
fhall be a lien on the real eftates of the feveral collectors from the fealing and de-
livery thereof.

C H A P.

LIX.

Bonds to be a

IV. And be it enacted, That each collector appointed as aforefaid, after having
given bond as aforefaid, fhall have the fame power in his diftrict as is by the laws
of this ftate given to collectors in their refpective counties, and fhall be entitled
to a commiffion, not exceeding fix per cent, on the amount of the collection put
into his hands, and fhall proceed to complete and fettle his collections in the
fame manner, and within the fame time, and under like penalties, with the col-
lectors of the feveral counties.

lien.

Collector to
have power,
&c.

V. And be it enacted, That this act fhall continue and be in force for the
term of three years, and to the end of the next feffion of affembly which fhall
happen thereafter.

Duration.

C H A P. LX.

An ACT for the benefit of certain foreigners who emigrated and
fettled in this ftate before the act for naturalization.
WHEREAS doubts are entertained whether foreigners, who emigrated
to this ftate previoufly to the feffion of affembly begun and held at
the city of Annapolis on Thurfday the twenty-fecond day of July,
in the year one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-nine, at which the act, en-
titled, An act for naturalization, was paffed, are entitled to the benefits of the
faid act: And whereas it is juft and reafonable that foreigners, who emigrated to
this ftate during our revolution, and have always manifefted an attachment to our
government and laws, and hazarded the important iffue in common with the
citizens of this ftate, and the defendants of fuch foreigners, fhould be protected
in the property acquired by them by their laudable induftry, and in confidence of
the protection of our laws; therefore,

Paffed Janua-
ry 20.

Preamble.

II. Be it enacted, by the General Affembly of Maryland, That all foreigners,
who emigrated and fettled within the limits of Maryland before the faid twenty-
fecond day of July, in the year one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-nine,
and who have continued and remained inhabitants of this ftate, and the de-
fcendants of fuch foreigners, fhall be deemed, conftrued and taken to have been,
and they are hereby declared to have been, and to be, refpectively, citizens of
this ftate, and to have been, and to be, entitled to all and fingular the immuni-
ties, privileges, rights and advantages, of natural born citizens, to all intents
and purpofes whatfoever, as if the faid foreigners, and their defcendants, had
been and were refpectively natives of this ftate; and all property, real, perfonal
and mixed, acquired or transferred by, from, through or under the faid foreigners,
or their defendants, and all and every perfon or perfons whatfoever claiming by,
from or under them, by gift, grant, purchafe, defcent or otherwife, fhall be
held, poffeffed, enjoyed and transferred, in like manner as if the faid foreigners,
and their defendants, had refpectively been, at the feveral times of acquiring or
transferring fuch property, natural born citizens of this ftate.

Certain fo-
reigners de-
dared citi-
zens, &c.

C H A P. LXI.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the benefit of Sarah
Hickley, Mary Anne Hickley, Robert Hickley, Thomas Hick-
ley and Samuel Hickley.

Paffed Janua-
ry 20.

WHEREAS an act of affembly has paffed this prefent feffion for the
relief of Sarah Hickley, the widow of James Hickley, late of Bal-
timore city, deceafed, and alfo of Mary Anne Hickley, Robert Hick-
ley, Thomas Hickley and Samuel Hickley, the children of the faid James Hick-
ley, as therein mentioned: And whereas the faid Samuel Hickley, one of the
faid children, is fince dead, before the faid act of affembly has been completed ;
therefore,

Preamble.