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THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor.
XII. And be it
enacted, That this state pledge their faith and honour to the
subscribers to the bank, to pay them any sum of money by them subscribed
and
advanced, in specie, with interest, and to pay the charges attending the
transacting
the business of the bank, and the purchase of provisions and other necessaries
for the army. |
1780.
CHAP.
XXVIII.
State pledge
their faith,
&c. |
XIII. And be
it enacted, That the directors of the bank, if required, lay a fair
state of their accounts and proceedings before the general assembly. |
Account to be
laid before the
assembly, &c. |
CHAP. XXIX.
An ACT for the payment of the journal of accounts. |
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At a SESSION of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY
of MARYLAND, begun and held at the
city of
ANNAPOLIS, on Tuesday the seventeenth of October,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven
hundred and eighty, and ended the 2d day of February,
seventy hundred and eighty-one: The
following laws were enacted.
THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor. |
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CHAP. I.
An ACT for the adjournment and continuance of several of the county
courts
within this state.
Saint-Mary's county court to Monday
the 18th of December; Charles county court to the Monday
before the second Tuesday in January; Prince-George's county court to the
fourth Tuesday in January. |
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CHAP. II.
An ACT for the adjournment and continuance of the general court of
the western
shore, and the several county courts therein mentioned.
The general court to the Monday before
the second Tuesday in May next; Frederick county court
to the second Tuesday in January; Montgomery county court to the first
Tuesday in January; Washington
county court to the third Tuesday in January; Talbot county court to the
fourth Tuesday in
February. |
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CHAP. III.
An ACT make valid the proceedings of the deputy sheriff of Worcester
county,
after the death of the late sheriff. |
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CHAP. IV.
An ACT to empower the present sheriff of Worcester county to collect
the balance
of the five pound tax and county
rate not collected by the late sheriff. |
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CHAP. V.
An ACT for calling out of circulation the quota of this state of the
bills of credit issued by congress, and the bills of
credit emitted
by acts of assembly under the old government, and by
the resolves
of convention. |
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WHEREAS congress, on the eighteenth day of March
last, recommended
to the several states to bring into the continental treasury, by taxes
or otherwise, their monthly quotas of fifteen million dollars, from
the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty, to the first day
of April,
seventeen hundred and eighty-one, inclusive, as apportioned by the resolution
of
the seventh day of October in the preceding year, and to provide that silver
and
gold should be received in payment of the said quotas, at the rate of one
Spanish
dollar in lieu of forty dollars of the said bills issued by congress:
And whereas the
general assembly of this state, from the peculiar situation and extreme
exigency of |
Preamble. |
