JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1834.

deliver or cause to be delivered to such person or persons
chargeable with the same, or left at their houses at least
thirty days previous to serving or levying such execution,
an account of the sum demanded of him her or them, which
shall contain the specific items charged, with an affidavit
annexed thereto, that he hath not, nor hath any other per-
son or persons acting under him, whilst sheriff, nor since,
received any part thereof or satisfaction for the same, to the
best of his knowledge and belief Provided, that if any per-
son against whom there is a claim by said Ward, aforesaid,
shall make affidavit before any justice of the peace of said
county, that he or she believes the same to be unjust, or that
the same had been paid at any previous time, it shall forever
bar such claim and provided, that nothing in this act shall
be construed to affect the estate of any deceased person

CHAP 180.

CHAPTER 180

An act for the benefit of Persona hiring or Renting Stoves

Passed Mar 10 1835

Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That any stove or stoves that now are or may hereaf-
ter be rented or hired to any person or persons within this
State, shall be and are hereby exempt (in the hands of the
person or persons so hiring or renting the same, ) from
all executions for debt or public taxes, and from all dis-
tress for rent due, or that may become due from the person
or persons so hiring or renting such stove or stoves, provid-
ed the contract for renting or hiring such stove or stoves
shall be in writing, signed by the parties to the contract,
and acknowledged before one justice of the peace within the
district wherein the parties reside, and the said justice of
the peace before whom the said acknowledgement hath

Exempt from exe-

cutor

been made, is hereby required to enter upon his docket,
that the said A and B appeared before him and duly ac-
knowledged an agreement, setting forth that A had rented
or hired a stove or stoves, as the case may be, to B, for a
certain trine therein named, Witness my hand, this day
of eighteen hundred and

Contract in writing

Sec 2 And be it enacted, That the said justice, for take
ing the said acknowledgment and docketing the same, shall,
receive twelve add a half cents

Fee