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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
and empowered, to purchase as much land as is requisite
for the same in the town of Easton, and that the expense thereof
be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury. |
NOV. SESS.
1810. |
No. 15.
WHEREAS the commissioners for erecting a penitentiary,
have
reported to this general assembly, that the grounds purchased for
the penitentiary extend across Madison-street continued, and that
a triangular piece, lying to the south of this street, is excluded by
the wall, and will be of no use to the institution, and hath suggested
the property of authorising the commissioners to sell said
piece or parcel fo ground and appropriating the proceeds to the
use of the penitentiary; therefore, RESOLVED, That the commissioners
for erecting a penitentiary, or a majority of them, be and
they are hereby authorised and empowered to sell that part of the
ground purchased for the penitentiary, extending across Madison-street
continued, lying to the south of this street, which is excluded
by the wall of the penitentiary, and to apply the proceeds thereof
to the completion of the penitentiary; and that the commissioners,
or a majority of them, on the receipt of the purchase money,
be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to execute a
deed or deeds to the purchaser or purchasers thereof. |
Part of ground
purchased for the
penitentiary may
be sold, &c. |
No. 16.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he
is hereby directed and empowered to pay to John Carr, or order,
five years full pay of a lieutenant in the revolutionary war, without
interest, as a commutation of half pay. |
In favour of John
Carr. |
No. 17.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council be and they
are
hereby authorised and requested, to employ a proper person to
take care of the arms now lodged, or which may be deposited, in
the public arsenal at Annapolis, and that they be empowered to
draw on the treasurer of the western shore for such sum of money
as they may deem a sufficient compensation for the duties performed
by the person so employed. |
Person to be employed
to take
care of arms in
arsenal at Annapolis. |
No. 18.
RESOLVED, That in the event of the passage of any
act of congress,
before the fourth day of March next, authorising the negotiation
of a loan to the United States, for the ensuing year, then
and in that case, the treasurer of the western shore shall be and he
is hereby authorised and required, on behalf of this state, to subscribe
to the said loan the full amount of any balance remaining in
the treasury at the close of the present session of this general assembly,
not otherwise appropriated; but of the opportunity of investing
said balance, by a subscription to a loan of the United
States, should not present itself before the fourth day of March
next, the said treasurer is hereby authorised and directed, to invest
the said balance in three per cent. stock of the United States, or
in the six per cent. stock of the United States, at the discretion of
the said treasurer. |
Subscription to a
loan authorised. |
No. 19.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he is
hereby authorised and directed, to pay unto the commissioners appointed
to superintend the erection of a penitentiary, the sum of
ten thousand dollars, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury. |
Sum authorised
to be paid for
erecting penitentiary. |
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