| 1786.
CHAP.
XXV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
may proceed to hear, determine or continue, each and every of the
said actions, in the same manner that the said court might have legally
done at
the aforesaid second Tuesday of December aforesaid, any discontinuance,
or want
of continuance, of any of the said actions, process or proceedings, notwithstanding. |
Days for
holding June
and October
courts. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the orphans court appointed by law to be held
on the second Tuesday in June, and the orphans court appointed by law to
be
held the first Tuesday in October, for Dorchester county, shall for the
future be
held on the Friday next after the first Mondays in June and October, any
law to
the contrary notwithstanding. |
Passed January
20. |
CHAP. XXVI.
A Supplement to the act for the further relief of the securities of
Thomas Williams, deceased, late collector of the tax
and public
dues in Prince-George's county, and for other purposes
therein
mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the act for the further relief of the
securities of Thomas
Williams, late collector of the tax for Prince-George's county,
the said securities, or either of them, are vested with full power and
authority to sell and dispose of such part or parts of their property,
or the property
of the late Thomas Williams, as they might think proper, and to take
bonds to the state from the purchasers, payable in the year seventeen hundred
and
ninety, in specie or certificates, and in such case, upon the bonds being
lodged
with the treasurer of the western shore, the said securities, or either
of them,
should have a receipt and credit on the treasurer's books for so much money
as
was expressed in the condition of the said bonds; and it being the intention
of
this legislature, that no receipt or credit as aforesaid, should be allowed
the securities,
or either of them, on any bond given for property sold, which at the time
of passing the said act did not belong to the said securities, or some
one of them,
or to the estate of the said Thomas Williams; and under colour of the said
act,
the said securities may tender to the treasurer bonds taken for property
acquired
in the course of collecting the taxes or otherwise, contrary to the true
intent and
meaning of the said act: Therefore, |
Bonds not to
be received
but on oath,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That no bond hereafter
to be offered shall be received by the treasurer from the said securities,
or either
of them, and placed to their credit, unless the said securities, or some
one of
them, make oath (to be administered by the treasurer of the western shore)
at
the time of offering such bond, that the same was bonâ fide taken
for the purchase
of property which belonged to the estate of the said Thomas Williams, or
some one of the said securities, at the time when the said recited act
passed. And
it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of the said recited
act,
that persons indebted for taxes to be collected by the said securities,
have a right
and election to pay such certificates or bills of credit for the said taxes
as the
said securities have a right to pay into the treasury; and if any property
is or
shall be taken by the said securities and sold, it shall be sold upon the
terms of
paying in money or certificates aforesaid, at the election of the buyer,
to the
amount of the sum due to the said securities, and the residue, if any,
in money or
certificates, if the owner shall so direct, to the owners of the property
taken,
and these terms shall be publicly notified at the time of sale; and if
any property
already taken, and not sold, or if sold and purchased by the securities,
or any
of them, or any person for them, may be redeemed by paying certificates
or bills
of credit as aforesaid, on or before the first day of March next; and it
is hereby
declared to be the duty of the said securities to give certificates in
change, if they
have them, to the purchasers of property sold, or to any person offering
to pay
the tax in certificates. |
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