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ROBERT EDEN, Esq; Governor.
same, and his and their assigns, shall lose the said debt, and for ever
be debarred
from any other action for the recovery of the same; any law, statute
or usage, to
the contrary notwithstanding. |
1769.
CHAP.
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III. And be
it further enacted, That whenever any sheriff or sub-sheriff
aforesaid shall, after the said first day of February next, take any
bond, bill or
writing obligatory, or any mortgage, promissory note, or inland bill
of exchange,
he shall deliver to his debtor, if he shall require the same, under
the hand of him
the said sheriff or sub-sheriff, a fair account of the consideration
for which such
bond, bill, or other writing obligatory, promissory note, or bill of
exchange, shall
be taken; and if any sheriff or sub-sheriff aforesaid, shall refuse
or neglect to do
the same, he shall forfeit and pay to the party injured the value of
the sum for
which such bond, bill, or writing obligatory, mortgage, promissory
note, or bill
of exchange, shall be taken, to be recovered by action of debt, or
on the case, in
any court that shall have jurisdiction of such sum, with double costs
of suit. |
And, on takeing
any bond,
&c. it required,
shall
deliver a fair
account of the
consideration,
&c. |
IV. And be it
further enacted, That when and as often as any sheriff or sub-sheriff
aforesaid shall, after the said first day of February next, take or
receive of or
from any person or persons whatsoever, any fee or fees which shall
be claimed to
be due to such sheriff by virtue of his said office, such sheriff or
under-sheriff shall,
and he is hereby required, to deliver to such person or persons who
shall demand
the same, a fair account, in words at length, of the services for which
such fee or
fees became due, and give the said person from whom he shall receive
the same fee
or fees, a receipt in writing therefor; and if any sheriff or sub-sheriff
shall neglect or
refuse so to do, he shall forfeit and pay to the party grieved the
sum so taken and
received, to be recovered as aforesaid, with double costs of suit. |
Fees due to
any sheriff, a
fair account to
be rendered,
and a receipt
given therefor,
on penalty. |
CHAP. I.
An ACT to repeal part of any act to encourage the
destroying of
wolves, crows and squirrels. |
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BE it enacted,
by the right honourable the lord proprietary, by and with the advice
and consent of his lordship's governor, and the upper and lower
houses of
assembly, and the authority of the same, That so much of an
act of assembly,
made at a session of assembly begun and held at the city of Annapolis,
the third
day of October, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight, entitled,
An act to
encourage the destroying of wolves, crows and squirrels, as relates
to the killing
of crows and squirrels in the several counties of St. Mary's, Kent,
Somerset,
Charles, Anne-Arundel, Talbot, Cæcil, Calvert, Prince-George's,
Dorchester,
Worcester, and Frederick counties, be, and is hereby repealed, abrogated,
and
made null and void. |
Part of an act
repealed. |
CHAP. XVII.
An ACT to appropriate the half acre of ground therein mentioned to
the use of
the public school in Frederick county.
The justices shall cause half an acre
of the public ground in Frederick-town, on the north-west corner
of the court-house, to be laid off and bounded with stones
or locust posts, and a certificate thereof to be
entered on record. The ground is to be appropriated
for erecting thereon a house and other conveniencies
for a public school. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
A Supplementary ACT to the act, entitled, An act ascertaining
the height of fences, to prevent the evil occasioned
by the multitude
of horses, and restraining horse-rangers within
this province,
and to redress the great evil accruing to this province
by
the multiplicity of useless horses, mares and colts,
that run in the
woods. |
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WHEREAS it is enacted, by the above recited act,
That whenever any
horse, mare or gelding, shall break into any cornfield or other enclosure,
and the owner be not known, that then and in all such cases, it
shall and may be lawful for the party grieved to take up such horse,
mare or gelding
so trespassing, and the same to carry before the next magistrate, who
shall be |
Preamble. |
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