112 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts

tained & confesse Judgment to the party that obtained the Judg-
ment as aforesaid for his Debt & Costs, of suits, adjudged with a
Cessat Execution till the Tenth day of October then next following
and thereof procure Certificate under the hand of the same Justice
or Justices before whom the said Judgment shall be confessed &
such Certificate shall be sufficient Supersedas to the Sherriffe to
forbeare serving Execution upon the body or goods of the person
so obtaining such Certificate and if the party be taken in Execution
before such Certificate be produced that then such Certificate being
obtained afterward as aforesaid shall be a sufficient supersedas to
the Sherriffe for the release of such person out of prison upon that
Execution the party paying or giving security to such sherriffe for
his due Fees for that imprisonment, & the Justice or Justices before
whom such Judgment shall be confessed as aforesaid shall returne
the Judgment so Confessed unto the Clerk of that respective Court
where the first Judgment was obtained to be Entred upon Record for
which Entry the Clerk shall receive as a Fee five pounds of Tobacco
& no more, & that after the said Tenth day of October It shall be
Lawfull to take out Execution upon the Judgment confessed as
aforesaid without any Scire facias or any other Delay, any Law,
Usage or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And
be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that a certain Act of As-
sembly made at a Generall Assembly begun & held at the City of
S^t Maryes the Tenth day of May Anno Domini 1692 Entituled an
Act for Stay of Executions after Aprill Court be & is hereby repealed
& utterly made voide & of no Effect. This Act to Endure for three
Yeares or to the End of the next Sessions of Assembly which
shall first happen.

Acts of
March,
1697/8,
ch. 6

An Act Impowering Commissioners of the County Courts to Levy
& raise monyes to defray the Necessary Charge of their Countys.
Forasmuch as in the Intervalls of Assembly in this Province there
have been severall necessary Charges Laid out & expended in the
severall & respective Countys of this Province by the severall & re-
spective Commissioners of the said Countys and others for the good
& wellfare & conservation of the peace of this province and of &
within the said Countys and which ought to be borne by the severall
respective Countys distinctly and have been formerly used & accus-
tomed to be Reimbursed, defray'd, paid and satisfyed by & out of the
County Levy, Levyed & assessed by the Commissioners of the said
Respective Countys by an Equall Assessment upon the Estates &
Persons of the Inhabitants of the said severall & respective Countys
but the said Commissioners of the said County Courts not having
sufficient Warrant & Authority to raise such Levy
Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maj^ty by & with the
advice & consent of this present Generall Assembly and by the
Authority of the same that for the Future It shall & may be Lawfull