| 1791.
CHAP.
LIV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
legislature, and doubts having arisen whether the said resolution can
be of benefit
to her or her family, and all the said bonds are yet uncancelled, and the
said
resolution has not been carried into effect, and this general assembly
being desirous
and willing to carry the intention of the legislature unto full effect, |
Resolution
repealed, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said resolution
be and the same is hereby repealed, and the treasurer of the western shore
is
hereby authorised and directed to receive the said bonds, and deliver them
to the
aforesaid Elizabeth Dorsey, to her use, after having acknowledged and endorsed
on each bond, satisfaction received by the state from the said Elizabeth
Dorsey for the sum due on each bond at the date of the said resolution,
and the
said Elizabeth Dorsey shall stand, in law and equity, in the place of the
state,
and be entitled to retain in her hands, in her own right, the money due
to the
state from the said Thomas Dorsey at the time of passing the before recited
resolution; provided, that the said Elizabeth Dorsey shall not, in virtue
of this
act, be entitled to ask, demand, sue for, recover or receive, the amount
or value
of the said bonds, or any part of any of them, of or from any of the co-obligors
in said bonds, their heirs, executors or administrators. |
Passed December
27. |
CHAP. LV.
An ACT to revive and aid the proceedings of the orphans court
of Dorchester county. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the orphans
court of Dorchester county stood adjourned to the second Tuesday in
December, seventeen hundred and ninety-one, and that two of the
justices of said court, from their necessary attendance on the public business
as
members of the legislature, have been unable to meet and call the said
court
according to adjournment as aforesaid, |
Rules, &c.
made valid,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all the rules,
judgments, entries, acts, process and proceedings, made and rendered by
the
justices of said court, shall be, and are hereby made, as valid and effectual,
according to the true intent and purpose of the same, as if the said court
had
met at the time to which the said court stood adjourned. |
Passed December
27. |
CHAP. LVI.
An ACT to authorise the justices of Prince-George's county to
levy a sum of money for the support, maintenance and
safe
keeping, of Mary Brown and Eleanor Love, two lunatics. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by the
petition of Thomas Brown, of Prince-George's county, that his
wife Mary Brown, and her daughter Eleanor Love, are now, and
have been for some time past, in a state of lunacy, and that he is
unable to take
care of them; therefore, |
Justices to
levy money,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of
Prince-George's county be and they are hereby empowered, at their next
meeting,
and annually thereafter, to levy on the assessable property of the said
county such
sum, not exceeding forty pounds current money, as they may think necessary
for
the support, maintenance and safe keeping, of Mary Brown and Eleanor
Love,
during their state of lunacy, and to apply the same as they may think best
for the
purposes aforesaid. |
Passed December
26. |
CHAP. LVII.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to prohibit the bringing
slaves into this state, and to alter and amend parts of the said act. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the said act prohibits the bringing slaves
into this state for
sale or to reside therein, and it appears to this general assembly that
the said prohibition is, in certain cases, injurious to the citizens
of
this state and of the commonwealth of Virginia. |
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