An act for the benefit of certain persons who emigrated into, or settled in this state of Maryland January 1814

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CHAPTER 105.
	Passed Jan. 17, 1814. Emigrants before the a- doption of the constitution of the U. States to be entitled to the privile- ges, immuni- ties &c. of citi- zens.	An act for the benefit of certain persons who emigrated into, or settled in this state before the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As- sembly of Maryland, That all free white persons, who emigrated into, or settled within the limits of this state before the adoption of the constitution of the United States of America, and who have continued and remained in- habitants of this state, shall be deemed, construed and taken to have been, and they hereby are declared to have been and to be respectively entitled to all and singular the immunities, privileges, rights and advantages of na- tural born citizens so far as to enable such persons to acquire right, title and interest in, and to hold, possess and enjoy lands, tenements and real estate within this state, and to transmit and transfer the same in the same manner as natural born citizens of this state; and all property real personal and mixed, acquired or transfer- red by, from through or under the said persons or any of them, or their or any of their descendants shall be held, possessed, enjoyed and transferred in like man- ner as if the said persons had respectively been and were at the several times of acquiring and transferring such property natural born citizens of this state; and all and every person or persons whatsoever, being citizens of this or some one of the United States claiming any real estate by, from or under the said persons first herein be- fore described or their or any of their descendants by gilt, grant, purchase, descent or otherwise, shall hold possess and enjoy the same in like manner as if the said persons had respectively been and were at the several
		times of acquiring and transferring such real estate na- tural born citizens of this state; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere with or affect the rights of any person or persons acquired before the passage of this act.

A Privy Ordinance in Baltimore - July 2, 1814

Baltimore Privy Ordinance
Patriot & Evening Advertiser.;
07-02-1814

An Extract from the Ordinance to prevent Nuisances and re

enforce Useful Regulations within the City of Baltimore.

            Sec. XI. And be it enacted and ordained, That if any person shall open or clean                   any vault or privy, or cause the same to be opened or cleaned   between the first day of June, and the first day of October, without permission of a Commissioner of Health, every person so offending, shall forfeit and pay Twenty Dollars.[1]

            June 15.                                                                       eo7t

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[1] Patriot & Evening Advertiser.; Date: 07-02-1814; Volume: 3; Issue: 156; Page: [4]; Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Transcribed by john Peter Thompson, 2 July 2014.

Notice to construct a Turnpike from Baltimore to Bladensburg, Maryland - 1814

NOTICE

            The President, Managers and Company of the Washington and Baltimore Turnpike Road hereby give Notice —

            That Plants of the said Road have been lodged as the law directs, in the County Clerk's Office of Baltimore, Ann , and Prince George's; and it is intended to commence making said Road from Baltimore on the first day of April next.  This toad will run from Pratt-street [Baltimore] across Gwynn's falls, a little below Mrs. Carroll's Mill, and continue in a straight a line as the nature of the ground will permit, (keeping always to the left of the old road to Norwood's Ferry; from thence to McCoy;s Tavern to Vansville [Beltsville, Prince George's County] , and to Bladensburg.

            This is to require all persons over whose lands the said road may pass, to make known to the said President and Managers, whether they intend to claim any damages on account of the road passing over their lands, in order that a jury (if necessary) may be called to adjust the same as the law directs.

           

                     March 21                                            2aw8t [1]

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[1] American & Commercial Daily Advertiser; Date: 03-25-1814; Volume: XXIX; Issue: 4632; Page: [4]; Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Transcribed by John Peter  Thompson. March 2^nd, 2014.

Orphans Court Notice & Sale Announcement: Benjamin Stoddert of Bladenburg's Estate - 1814

NOTICE.

Orphan's Court of Prince George's County, January 25th, 1814.

               Ordered by the Court, that Thomas Ewell Administrator of Benjamin Stoddert late of said county, deceased, sell the whole of the deceased's personal estate for the payment of his debts, on a credit of nine months, for all sums above $10, and for all sums to the amount of $10 and under for cash; after giving three week notice, by advertisement in the National Intelligencer and by advertisements set up at the most public places in the neighbourhood [sic], of the time and place of sale. And it is further ordered, that he take on with an approved security from the purchaser or purchasers thereof.

                              TEST,

                                                            TRUMAN TYLER, Register.

               Jan: 31 - 3w[1]  

PUBLIC SALE.

               Agreeably to the above order the subscriber will sell at public sale, on Wednesday the 23d day of February next, the whole of the personal property of Mr. Stoddert, consisting of very valuable negroes, among which are a miller & a coachman, the first quality of household furniture, among which are the best beds, mattresses and bedding, window curtains, a quantity of plate and other very valuable articles — also 6 horses, and a few Cows, Oxen, Sheep, &c. with a variety of other articles, farming utensils, wagons, carts, &c.  The Sale will be at the late dwelling of Mr. Stoddert in Bladensburg, and will commence at 10 o'clock, and be continued til the whole is sold.      

        

                                             THOMAS EWELL, Administrator.

N. B. at the same time will be sold a new and handsome finished carriage with good plated harness a little worn for  275 dollars cash, and the balance on the above credit of nine months.

               January 31- 3w[2]

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[1] Daily National Intelligencer; Date: 02-09-1814; Volume: II; Issue: 345; Page: [1]; Location: Washington (DC), District of Columbia.

[2] Daily National Intelligencer; Date: 02-09-1814; Volume: II; Issue: 345; Page: [1]; Location: Washington (DC), District of Columbia.

Transcribed by John Peter Thompson, February 9th, 2014.

US Immigration and Naturalization Policy Debate, Dec 1, 1813

FROM THE STANDARDS OF UNION.

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A POINT OF CONTROVERSY.

               It now behoves the United States to repeal their naturalization laws, or in a solemn manner to maintain their validity. While they remain on the statute book, and form a part of the law of the land, it would be disgraceful to submit to their violation. If they are just in point of principle, they ought to be defended. If wrong, they should be instantly revoked; and then, that subject of contention with Great Britain would be removed. It is very extraordinary circumstance, that England who accepts and courts the services of the subjects of other nations, should be so Stern in enforcing an opposite rule against them. An American or a Dane, serves two years in the British Navy, is thereby ipso facto, naturalized; but an Englishman regularly naturalized in the United States, if taken in their service, is liable to be hung.

               The question before us is a very important one. It possesses extensive relations in peace as well as in war. If naturalization is not valid, the natives of the British dominions cannot become American citizens, neither can they be entitled to hold ships, pursue trade, or perform any other act in that character.

               We hold the right of immigration to be a law inseparable from our nature, and as ancient as civilization itself. - That it was recognized by the Roman Republic, sufficiently appears by the Plotian law, and the celebrated orations of Cicero, pro Archias. Contrary doctrines, principally spraying, from the system of feudal vassalage and cannot be sanctioned by states, whose institutes are founded on the universal law of nature and of nations. This is a subject that deserves an able and accurate discussion.

               We are happy to see our government retaliate in a manner that will eventually ensure safety to the person of our naturalized fellow citizens and cause their rights to be respected. The principle must be settled by the maxims of justice, and not by the arrogant despotism of a British cabinet.

Headline: From the Standard of Union. A Point of Controversy; Article Type: News/Opinion

Paper: Baltimore Patriot, published as Baltimore Patriot & Evening Advertiser.; Date: 12-01-1813; Volume: 2; Issue: 125; Page: [2]; Location: Baltimore, Maryland

An ACT to prevent the obstruction of the navigation the eastern and north west branches of the river Patowmack

Chapter XV November 1784

An ACT to prevent the obstruction of the navigation the eastern and north west branches of the river Patowmack 

WHEREAS it is represented to thiB general that great numbers of wears and hedges have of been erected in and upon the eastern and north west of Patowmack Tiver near the town of Bladensburg to great injury of the navigation of the said river and of trade of the said town therefore 

II Be it enacted by the General Assembly of That all wears and hedges already made or hereafter to made in the eastern and north west branches of the Patowmack which obstruct or injure the free navigation thereof shall be and are hereby deemed and declared nuisances and may be by any person or persons pulled down prostrated and abated as such 

III And be it enacted That no person or persons whatsoever shall after the first day of April next put place make any wear or hedge or any other erection which injure the navigation in the said eastern or north west of the river Patowmack under the penalty of five current money for every such offence to be recovered any magistrate of the county of Prince George's one half the informer or him or them that will sue for or prosecute effect for the same the other half to the use of this state 

IV And be it enacted That any person or persons shall fish any such wear or hedge already erected or shall hereafter be erected so as to obstruct or injure the navigation in the said eastern or north west branch of the said river Patowmack shall forfeit and pay for every such offence sum of three pounds current money to be recovered and applied as herein before directed 

V And be it enacted That all wears and hedges made or hereafter to be made upon the water above the of Bladensburg so as to obstruct the natural course of the water or to cause the said water to overflow any part of said town of Bladensburg shall be deemed and taken to nuisances and may be abated as such and any person making erecting or fishing such hedge or wear after the first day of April next shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of five pounds current money to be recovered and applied as aforesaid.  

Somethings never change: An Act to restrain the use of Fire-Arms in the city of Washington - March 1813

AN ACT

To restrain the use of Fire-Arms in the city of Washington.

               Sec. 1.  Be it enacted by the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of the City of Washington, That from and after the passage of this act, if any person shall fire or shoot a gun, pistol or other fire arms, idly for sport or amusement within two hundred and fifty yards of any dwelling house , in that part of this city contained within north M street, Massachusetts avenue, Seventh street east, Pennsylvania Avenue, the Eastern Branch, Sixth street west, Virginia avenue and Rock Creek; or in any part of the city on the sabbath, the persaon so firing or shooting, shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding ten dollars, nor less than five dollars, at the discretion of any justice of the peace resident within this city; one-half whereof shall be for the use of the city, and the other half shall be paid to the informer, or to the trustees of the poor of this corporation, in the case the informer declines accepting the same:  Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any officer of this corporation for firing or shooting as aforeaid, in the execution of his duty, or the militia or troops of the United States for discharging their fire arms on days of mustering, training or rejoicing, when ordered so to shoot or fire by their commnading officer; or any person shooting or firing as aforesaid in the performance of any philosphical experiment or theatrical amusement, for the exhibition of which a licence shall have been previously obtained.  And provided, That nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to prohibit any person from shooting at water fowls in the Eastern Branch, Potomac river or Tyber creek, although such person may be within the limits herein prescribed.

               Sec. 2.  And be it enacted, That if any minor, or apprentice or slave, shall be convicted of violating the provisions of this act, the parent or guardian of such minor, the master or mistress of such apprentice, or the owner or holder of such slave, as the case may be, shall forfeit and pay, as aforesaid, the fine or fines incurred by such minor, apprentice, or slave.

               Sec. 3.  And be it enacted, That the fourth section of an act, entitled "An act to suppress horse running and shooting in certain cases in the city of Washington," passed the ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and nine, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

TOPPAN WEBSTER, President

pro tempore, of the Board of Common Council

JAMES HOBAN, President

pro tem. of the Board of Aldermen.

Approved, March 30th, 1813.

DANl. RAPINE[1]

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[1] Daily National Intelligencer; Date: 04-21-1813; Volume: I; Issue: 95; Page: [2]; Location: Washington (DC), District of Columbia.

Transcribed by John Peter Thompson, April 21st, 2013.