| 1787.
CHAP.
X. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
the cask and nails of each hogshead; and the inspector shall sell and
transfer tobacco
which shall not be so received and marked, on the second day of holding
the
court, if fair weather, if not, on the next fair day of the court of their
respective
counties in the months of September and November on the western shore,
and in
the months of October and November on the eastern shore, yearly, by public
auction, in single hogsheads, and not otherwise, and shall pay the money
arising
by such sale, at the average price of the sale of the tobacco belonging
to each
house, in satisfaction of their notes, from time to time, to the proprietors
thereof
making their demand, under the same penalty as is inflicted for not paying
inspectors
notes. |
Subject to
charges. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That all transfer tobacco, when prized, shall be subject
to the same charges for inspection and otherwise as crop tobacco is
subject to. |
Passed May
15. |
CHAP. XI.
An ACT to ascertain the allowance to the members of the general
assembly to defray the expences
of their attendance. |
Allowance to
members. |
BE it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That there shall be
allowed, to each member of the general assembly, during his attendance
in assembly, to defray his expences, the sum of fifteen shillings current
money for each day, besides the accustomed itinerant charges and ferriages. |
| Continuance. |
II. This act to continue three years, and
until the end of the next session of
assembly thereafter. |
Passed May
15. |
CHAP. XII.
An ACT to empower the justices of Frederick county to assess
and levy a sum of money on said county to finish the
building
of their court-house. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition of
the justices and inhabitants of Frederick county, that the sum levied
in virtue of the act, entitled, An act to enable the justices of Frederick
county court for the time being to assess on the property of the said county
a sum
of money for the uses therein mentioned, passed at November session,
seventeen
hundred and eighty-four, proves insufficient to answer the purposes for
which it
was levied; that pursuant to the said act a court-house hath been erected
upon a
plan adopted from an opinion that it would be attended with as little
expence as,
and be more convenient than, any other proposed, but that the expence has
far
exceed expectation, and although the money levied is expended, great part
of
the inside work still remains unfinished; |
Justices to levy
money,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may
be lawful for the justices of Frederick county court for the time being,
and they
are hereby authorised, empowered and required, at their next August
court, or
any intervening adjoined court, to levy on the assessable property in said
county,
the sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds, together with a commission of
five
per cent. for collection, which sum so assessed, shall be collected
by the sheriff of
Frederick county as other county levies are collected; and the said sheriff
is
hereby required and directed to pay the same to the justices of Frederick
county
court aforesaid for the time being, who are hereby authorised and required
to
apply the same to the finishing the new court-house; and any surplus
that may
remain after completing the same, shall be applied in repairing the old
gaol, if
the justices aforesaid shall think the same practicable, or if the same
shall not be
thought practicable, then to building a new one, and to no other use or
purpose
whatever. |
And sell materials,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the justices aforesaid may proceed to sell the
materials of the old court-house at public sale, giving reasonable notice,
and have
the same removed off the public ground, and shall apply the money arising
therefrom |
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