| 1789.
CHAP.
XXIX.
Place to be
fixed, &c. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
IX. And be it
enacted, That at the first election to be held in the said county
for a sheriff, the voters of said county shall and may, by a majority
of votes, determine
the place at which the courts of the said county shall be held after the
said election. |
Passed December
25. |
CHAP. XXX.
An ACT to carry into execution a resolve of the congress of the
United States respecting the safe-keeping of persons
committed
under the authority of the United States to gaols of
this state. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it was, on the twenty-third day of September,
in the year
of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, by a resolve of the
congress of the United States, recommended to the legislatures of the
several states to pass laws providing for the safe-keeping of all such
persons as
might be committed to the gaols of the several states, under the authority
of the
United States; |
Sheriffs to receive
prisoners,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and
it is hereby declared to be the duty of the several sheriffs in this state,
to receive
and safe-keep in their respective gaols all such prisoners as may be committed
under the authority of the United States, until they shall be discharged
by the
due course of the laws thereof, under the like penalties as in the case
of prisoners
committed under the authority of this state; provided nevertheless, that
the
United States are to pay for the use and keeping of such of the gaols
of this
state at the rate of fifty cents per month for each prisoner that shall,
under their
authority, be committed thereto, during the time such prisoners shall be
therein
confined, which sum shall be paid to the sheriff for the use if the county
at the
time of the discharge of any such prisoner; and provided also, that they
are to
support such of said prisoners as shall be committed under their authority
to any
of the gaols of this state for offences against the constitution, or
the laws of the
United States. |
Passed December
25. |
CHAP. XXXI.
An ACT for the benefit of Saint Mary Anne's parish, in Cæcil
county. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the said parish, under the late proprietary
government, had
erected a church on four acres of land, part of the reserve in Northeast
manor, and the said land had been appropriated to the use of the
said church, but the legal title therein never hath been completed, and
cannot
be competed without the aid of the legislature; |
Chancellor to
order a patent,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the chancellor
be empowered to order a patent to the vestry of the said Saint Mary Anne's
parish,
for the said four acres of land, in the same manner as if the said land
had
been purchased of the intendant under the laws for selling confiscated
property,
and a certificate of such purchase had been lodged in the land-office;
and on
such patent the vestry for the time being of Saint Mary Anne's parish
shall hold
the said four acres of land to the use of the said parish, in the same
manner, and
to all interests and purposes, as if the legal title had been vested in
the said parish
under the said proprietary government, and secured by the thirty-third
clause
of the declaration of rights. |
Passed December
25. |
CHAP. XXXII.
An ACT to revive and aid certain proceedings in Queen-Anne's
county court. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the justices of Queen-Anne's county court,
on the thirtieth
day of October last, were prevented by badness of weather
from meeting and holding their court agreeable to their adjournment
of the preceding day, and divers actions, suits and proceedings, civil
and criminal,
were discontinued; for aiding therefore the said actions, suits and
proceedings, |
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