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CHAP. 5. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Worcester county, and paid to such person as the levy court of said
county shall or may direct. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. VI.
An Act for the relief of Hugh Lemmon and James Burton, of Frederick
County.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 195. A Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. VII.
An Act authorising John Evans, James Cockran and Joseph Phillips,
securities of Samuel Cowden, late Sheriff of Cecil County,
to complete
the Collections of said Sheriff. Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 196. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. VIII.
An Act for the relief of John Figg, of Montgomery County.
Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 197. A Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. IX.
An Act to provide for recording certain Papers in the Register's
Office
of Saint-Mary's County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 198. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that a number
of wills, and other papers appertaining to the estates of deceased
persons, remain unrecorded in the register's office of Saint-Mary's
county, and that said wills are liable to be damaged or
lost; therefore, |
Certain papers to
be recorded. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the orphans court of
Saint Mary's county, and they are hereby empowered and required,
to cause to be recorded by the register of wills of said county, in
good leather bound books, to which fair and regular alphabets shall
be prefixed, all such papers filed in the office of the register of wills
of said county, and which have not been recorded, as they, or a
majority of them, in their judgement, may deem necessary and proper
to be recorded. |
| Register's fees. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said register
shall receive the
same fees for his said services as he is by law entitled to for services
of a similar nature. |
Levy for paying
the same. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Saint-Mary's
county may and shall levy, on the assessable property of said county,
such sum of money as the fees for recording said wills and other
papers may amount to, to be collected and paid over by the collector
of Saint-Mary's county to the register aforesaid. |
| Duration. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue in force
until the first day of March, eighteen hundred and nine.
Further continued by 1808, ch. 99,
and other annual general continuing acts. |
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CHAP. X.
An Act authorising James Cooke, late Sheriff and Collector of Saint-Mary's
County, to complete his Collections. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol.
199. |
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