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Session
Laws
p. 258
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Sheriffs, Coroners and other Officers that have arrested or shall
arrest any Person or Persons by Virtue of any Writ, Precept or
Process returnable to the Second Tuesday of April next, shall be
under the same Obligation to have the Party arrested at Annapolis
the Third Tuesday of May, as if such Writ, Process and Precepts
were then returnable; and that the Provincial Courts for the Future
shall begin the Tuesday of May and October Yearly: Any Law,
Usage or other Cause, Matter or Thing to the contrary notwith-
standing.
And be it Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That that Part of
an Act of Assembly, entituled, An Act causing Grand and Petit
Jurors to come to the Provincial and County-Courts, and ascertain-
ing their Allowances, made at a Sessions of Assembly begun and
held at the City of Annapolis the Twenty Sixth Day of April, Anno
Domini Seventeen Hundred and Fifteen, which relates to Summon-
ing Grand and Petit- Jurors to attend at the Provincial Courts, be
and is hereby repealed and made void.
This Act to continue for Three Years and to the End of the next
Session that shall happen after the Three Years.
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1723
Chap. XXIV
[Wm Parks
compilation,
1727, p. 258;
continues
1719, ch. 18]
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An Act reviving and continuing an Act, entituled, An Act for Limi-
tation of Officers Fees, and for Supplying Some Defects there-
in.
Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, by
and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Governour, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That an Act of Assembly made at a Sessions of Assembly
begun and held at the City of Annapolis the Fourteenth Day of
May in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Nineteen;
entituled, An Act for Limitation of Officers Fees, be and is hereby
revived and declared to have been in full Force from and after the
End of that Session of Assembly which was begun and held at the
City of Annapolis the Ninth Day of October in the Year of our
Lord Seventeen Hundred and Twenty Two, unto the End of this
present Sessions of Assembly, and from thence to continue in full
Force till the Twenty Fifth Day of December which shall happen
in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Twenty Four.
And whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, That
several Sheriffs within this Province, having the Collection of the
Publick and County Levies, and several Officers Fees on Execution,
have every Time they have executed any of the People indebted for
Levies and Officers Fees, charged separate F.vecntion Fees for each
separate Claim, to the great Burthen and Oppression of the People,
and contrary to the Intent of the former Laws. For Prevention
whereof for the Future,
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