Maryland Herald
Maryland Herald
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Description: Maryland Legislature - A list of laws passed November session, 1803

Date: January 18 1804

Newspaper published in: Elizabethtown (Hagerstown),Md.

Page/Column: Page 1

Maryland Legislature
A list of laws passed November session, 1803

[Transcriber's Note: Only those laws mentioning individuals or of historical significance have been included in this transcription.]

No. 1. An act to settle and ascertain the salary of the members of the council for the ensuing year.

No. 2. An act for the relief of THOMAS PARVIN, an insolvent debtor, of Frederick County.

11. An act for the relief of ELEANOR MARSHALL of Frederick County.

12. An act for the relief of WILLIAM McGRIGOR (McGREGOR?), of Worcester County.

13. An act authorizing a lottery to raise a sum of money to finish the Baptist frame meeting house in Baltimore County.

17. An act for the support of ANNE MILLS, of Montgomery County.

18. A supplement to an act, entitled, an act for erecting a village at Choptank bridge, in Caroline County, and for other purposes, therein mentioned.

20. An act for the benefit of EDWARD MONTGOMERY, of Alleghany County.

23. A supplement to an act entitled, an act for the relief of HUGH FERGUSON, of Kent County.

24. An act to empower the judges of the court of appeals to reinstate the cause of EDWARD NORWOOD against CHARLES RIDGELY and wife's lessee.

25. A further supplement to the act, entitled, an act to lay out a road from AQUILA TARMAN's tavern to THOMAS COCKEY's mill, and from said mill to the road called The Deer Park Road. [Baltimore County.]

26. An act to lay out a road from CRISPIN CUNNINGHAM'S to FRANCIS SMITH'S stone house in Harford County.

32. An act for the benefit of JOHN CARRERE, of the city of Baltimore.

35. An act authorizing a lottery to raise a sum of money for the purpose of finishing the German Lutheran and German Presbyterian church in Woodsbury, in Frederick County.

37. A supplement to an act, entitled, an act authorizing the trustees of Charlotte-Hall school to lay off a town in Saint-Mary's County, by the name of Charlotte's-Ville, and dispose of the lots therein by lottery.

38. An act to authorize and empower the levy court of Worcester county to levy annually a sum of money for the support of AARON FOSKEY, BETSY FOSKEY, THOMAS FOSKY, jun. and ABIGAIL FOSKEY, children of THOMAS FOSKEY.

41. An act for the relief of CALEB SUMMERS, of Montgomery County.

42. An act to prevent swine and geese from going at large in Taney-town in Frederick County.

43. An act authorizing a lottery to raise a sum of money for repairing Shrewsbury church in Kent County.

47. An act authorizing JAMES WILSON, late sheriff and collector of Baltimore County, to complete his collection.

49. An act for the benefit of the congregation of the German or High Dutch Reformed Christian Church in Frederick-Town, in Frederick County.

50. An act for the Benefit of JOHN LYON, of Montgomery County.

60. An act to authorize the levy count of Baltimore County to adjust a claim of HENRY STEVENSON against said county.

61. An act appointing commissioners to lay out the divisional road between Somerset and Worcester counties, from the mills formerly called JOHN CALDWELL'S mills to COX'S branch.

66. An act to straighten part of the road in Harford County which leads from UNDERHILL'S Mill to the city of Baltimore.

69. An act to alter and change the names of JAMES CLARK, and MARGARET RUSSEL (RUSSELL?), his wife, of Prince George's County, and of their children.

72. An act for the benefit of PHILIP GREEN and JACOB GREEN, of Prince George's County.

73. An act for the relief of SAMUEL WRIGHT, of Queen Anne's County.

74. An act for founding a college in the city or precincts of Baltimore, by the name of Baltimore College.

79. An act authorizing JAMES SUMMERS, late sheriff and collector of Caroline County, to complete his collections.

81. An Act to alter and change the name of JAMES DONALDSON LOWRY, of the city of Baltimore, to that of JAMES LOWRY DONALDSON.

86. An act for the support of ELIAZABETH ODEN and ELIZABETH RANDALL, of Montgomery County.

88. An act for the relief of RICHARD MORGAN of Montgomery county, and CHRISTOPHER WOOLFORD, of Washington County.

91. An act empowering the chancellor to direct a sale of the real estate of RICHARD JACOB DUCKETT, late of Prince George's County, deceased, for the purposes herein mentioned.

94. An act annulling the marriage of JOSEPH BRAY, of Anne Arundel County, and ANNE, his wife.

97. An act for the benefit of ARTHUR THOMPSON of St. Mary's County.

100. An act to enable MARGARET HAMMOND and HARRIET HAMMOND of Baltimore County to erect a bridge across Patapsco River at a place called HAMMOND'S Ferry,

105. A act for the relief of JOSEPH DOUGLAS of Kent County.

107. An act to authorize a lottery to raise a sum of money for the purpose of repairing he Protestant Episcopal Church in All Hallows parish in Anne Arundel County.

Submitted: 03/24/07 (Edited 03/24/07)

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