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Clement Dorsey. The general public statutory law and public local law of the state of Maryland : from the year 1692 to 1839 inclusive, with annotations thereto,and a copious index.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1839.
 

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Mortgages, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty- three, chapter one
hundred and eighty-one. — 1839, ch. 58..

Affidavit
may be
made be-
fore justice
of the
peace, &c.

Be it enacted^ by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the affidavit required by the third section of said act to which
this is a supplement, to be made by the mortgagees, their exe-
cutors, administrators or assigns, to the statement of the mort-
gage claim, may hereafter be made before any justice of the
peace of this state, or judge of any court of this state, or before
any notary public, or judge of any coun of record of any other
state, or of the United States.

To be

certified.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That where such affidavit shall
be made before a notary public, it shall be authenticated by his
notarial seal, or before a judge of any court of record, it shall
be certified by the clerk of said court, under the seal of the
court, and if made before a justice of the peace of any other
county than that in which the proceedings have taken place,
the clerk of the county court of such county shall certify, un-
der seal of said court, that the said justice was at the time of
said affidavit, a justice of the peace, duly commissioned and
qualified.

Decree
may be
passed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the decree authorized by
the second section of the act to which this is a supplement,
may be passed as well after as before the period limited in the
mortgage for payment of the debt, or for the foreclosure of the
mortgage.

AM ACT to prolecl the lives of Persons travelling on Rail Roads within the
State of Maryland.— 1839, ch. 83.

Persons
causing ob-
structions,

guilty of

felony

SEC.1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, if any person or
persons shall place any thing or cause any thing to be placed
on any rail road in this state, calculated to obstruct, overthrow
or direct from the track of such rail road, any car, vehicle or
carriage, travelling or passing on such rail road, with the view
or intent to obstruct or overthrow any car, vehicle or carriage,
such person or persons so offending, shall be deemed guilty of
felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to the
penitentiary for a period not less than two years nor more than
ten years.

If death be
caused,
guilty of
murder.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the death of any person
shall be occasioned by the overthrow or obstruction of any
rail road car, vehicle or carriage, produced by the placing of
any thing or obstruction on any rail road in violation of the
first section of this act, then the person or persons so placing
the thing or obstruction shall be deemed guilty of murder.

Penalty for
obstructing

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That if any person or persons
shall break or injure in any manner, any rail road in this state,



 

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Clement Dorsey. The general public statutory law and public local law of the state of Maryland : from the year 1692 to 1839 inclusive, with annotations thereto,and a copious index.
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