| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 191. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
several counties of this state, and will justly and impartially value
all personal property which I shall be authorised to value, agreeably
to the directions of said act, according to the best of my skill
and knowledge, and therein I will spare no person for favour or affection,
or any person aggrieve for hatred, malice or ill-will;" which
oath or affirmation any of the justices of the peace, or commissioners
of the tax may administer. |
| Their compensation. |
31. AND BE IT ENACTED, That there shall be
allowed to each
collector for the performance of the duties by this act imposed on
him, such a sum as the commissioners of the tax in their discretion
shall think reasonable and proper, according to the duty which he
shall actually perform, which sums shall be respectively laid by
the justices of the levy courts of the several counties of this state,
and levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time
that other county charges are laid, levied and collected; and any
person whose property shall be valued by a collector or deputy collector
as aforesaid, shall have the same right to appeal that is granted
to other persons assessed under this act. |
Registers to make
out lists of certificates
becoming
ready for patent. |
32. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the registers
of the land offices
on the western and eastern shores respectively, shall annually
between the first day of March and the first day of May, make out for
the commissioners of the tax, for the county or counties where such
lands may be, a list of all certificates which have become ready for
patent, expressing the name of the land, the quantity it contains,
and the person who is entitled to patent; and in case of resurvey,
shall express the name of the original tracts and quantity of vacancy
added. |
| To be sent to sheriffs. |
33. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the register of
the land office
for the western shore shall enclose and deliver the list made out as
aforesaid, directed to the commissioners of the tax for the respective
counties, endorsed " on public service," to the sheriff of Anne-Arundel
county, to be by him transmitted as public letters; and the
register of the eastern shore land office shall enclose and deliver
the list made out as aforesaid, endorsed in like manner, to the sheriff
of Talbot county, who shall transmit the same as public letters
to the respective counties. |
Clerks to make out
lists of alienations
of lands, &c. |
34. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerks of
the court of appeals
of the western and eastern shores respectively, shall be and they
are hereby directed and required, on or before the first day of May
next, to make out from the records of deeds enrolled at length among
the records of their respective courts, lists of the alienations of all
land thereby granted, bargained or sold, since the last list of alienations
by them respectively made out and forwarded; which list
shall express the names of the bargainor or grantor, or bargainors
or grantors, bargainee or grantee, or bargainees or grantees, of the
land, and the quantity of acres the same may contain, and shall
enclose and direct the same under seal, endorsed " on public service,"
to the commissioners of the tax of the county where such lands may
lie, to be forwarded as other public letters are by law directed to be
forwarded, and under the like penalties; and the clerks of the court
of appeals of the western and eastern shores respectively, shall annually
thereafter, between the first day of March and the first day
of May, in like manner make out from the records of deeds as aforesaid
lists of the alienations of all lands which shall from time to |
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