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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
CHAP. V.
An ACT to revive and make valid the proceedings of Worcester
parish, in Worcester county. |
1788.
Passed May
25. |
WHEREAS the vestry and inhabitants of Worcester
parish, in Worcester
county, neglected to meet and elect vestrymen and churchwardens
for the said parish on Easter Monday in the year seventeen hundred
and eighty-seven, agreeably to the law for the establishment of select
vestries: |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said vestry
and inhabitants of said parish be empowered to meet at the parish church
on the
first Monday in August next, and there proceed to choose vestrymen and
churchwardens
in as ample and full manner as they could have done on the said Easter
Monday, and all transactions by them done subsequent to that time, are
hereby
confirmed and made valid in law, any law, usage or custom, to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
Vestry, &c.
to meet, &c. |
CHAP. VI.
An ACT to vest the free-school property in Dorchester county in
the trustees of the poor of said county. |
Passed May
25. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Dorchester county
have, by their
petition to this general assembly, set forth, that their county tax
is
very high, and that from the great scarcity of money they find themselves
unable to erect a poor-house and support their poor, agreeably to a law
passed at November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, and praying
a
law may pass vesting a right in the trustees of the poor of said county
to dispose
of the lands and funds set apart for the support of the free-school, and
apply the
same to the relief of the poor of Dorchester county, in such manner
as they may
think most conducive to the interest of the inhabitants of the county aforesaid;
and this general assembly have thought proper to grant the prayer of said
petition; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the free-school
property of said county shall be and is hereby vested in the trustees
of the poor
for said county, and their successors, and shall be taken and held by them
as a
fund for the relief and support of the poor in said county; which property
the
said trustees, and their successors, or a major part of them, may at any
time,
with the consent of Dorchester county court, lease or sell and convey
on such
terms as they may think most beneficial; and the visitors of the free-school
in
said county are hereby directed to deliver to said trustees all the
free-school property
aforesaid, of whatever nature or kind it may be, and to render to them
a
just and full account of the profits thereof; and if any money is due to
the said
school, the visitors shall draw orders in favour of said trustees, and
the trustees,
in their own names, shall have full power to sue for and recover said sums
of
money in as ample manner as the visitors of said school had, or could have,
under
any former law or laws of this state. |
Free-school
property vested
in the
trustees, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the said trustees shall apply the property hereby
vested in them to the support and maintenance of the poor of Dorchester
county,
in such manner as to them shall seem most conducive to the interests of
the
county aforesaid. |
Who are to
apply the
same, &c. |
CHAP. VII.
An ACT for the benefit of John Frederick Amelung. |
Passed May
26. |
WHEREAS John Frederick Amelung, glass manufacturer,
of New-Bremen,
in Frederick county, hath, by his petition to this general
assembly, set forth, that he has established a glass manufactory in
said county, whereon he has actually expended a capital of twenty thousand
pounds, and in the conduct of which he finds employment and subsistence
for
three hundred and forty-two persons; that he has already brought the same
to a
considerable degree of perfection, both as to the quality of his glass, |
Preamble. |
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