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CHAP.
XLIV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
XXIII. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioner or commissioners shall
be entitled to receive ten shillings current money per day for every day
he shall
be actually employed in making the distributions aforesaid, deciding disputes
concerning
pre-emption, and selling the lands as aforesaid. |
Who shall
take an oath. |
XXIV. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioner or commissioners, before
he or they act as such, shall take an oath well and faithfully to discharge
the
duties required and enjoined by this act, according to the best of his
skill and
judgment. |
And make a
record, &c. |
XXV. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioner or commissioners shall
make a record of all valuations by them made, and of all the lots distributed
among the officers and soldiers aforesaid, and of all lots sold by them,
in virtue
of this act, and return the same to the register of the land office, to
be by him
safely kept. |
Passed December
23. |
CHAP. XLV.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act authorising the appointment
of trustees to sell and convey a tract of land called
Hall's
Lot, lying and being in Charles county, for the purposes
therein
mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that
the original act is
incompetent to carry into execution the design of the legislature intended
in said act, as part of the land directed to be sold in the above
recited act, by the name of Hall's Lot, containing about one hundred and
thirty
acres, is since found to be part of a tract of land called Hall's Place; |
Hall's Place to
be sold, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
That the said tract of land called Hall's Place, shall and
is hereby directed to be sold and conveyed in the same manner as is provided
by
the above recited act for the sale and conveyance of the aforesaid
land called
Hall's Lot, provided the said trustees enter into bond before the presiding
justice
of Charles county, with security, if required, to ensure the application
of the
money arising from the sale to the purpose intended by the said act, and
to account
for any surplus that may remain after discharging the balance therein
mentioned. |
Passed December
23. |
CHAP. XLVI.
An ACT to cede to congress a district of ten miles square in this
state for the seat of the government
of the United States. |
Representatives
may cede
any district,
&c. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the representatives
of this state in the house of representatives of the congress of the
United States, appointed to assemble at New-York on the first Wednesday
of March next, be and they are hereby authorised and required, on the behalf
of this state, to cede to the congress of the United States any district
in this
state not exceeding ten miles square, which the congress may fix upon and
accept
for the seat of government of the United States. |
Passed December
23. |
CHAP. XLVII.
An ACT to continue the acts of assembly therein mentioned, and
for other purposes. |
Several acts
continued. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act, entitled,
An act for the relief of insolvent debtors, passed March session, seventeen
hundred and seventy-four, and one other act, entitled, An act to repeal
an act, entitled, An act respecting insolvent debtors, and to revive another
act,
entitled, An act for the relief of insolvent debtors, passed May session
seventeen
hundred and eighty-eight, be and they are hereby continued, and shall be
in full
force until the end of the next session of the general assembly.
That another
act of assembly, entitled, An act for the regulation of officers fees,
passed November |
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