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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
CHAP. IX.
An ACT to repeal part of an act, entitled, An act for removing
original papers in the late prerogative office to the
several counties
in this state. |
1788.
Passed May
26. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the second and
third clauses of the act, entitled, An act for removing original papers
in
the late prerogative office to the several counties in this state,
be and are
hereby repealed. |
Part of an act
repealed. |
CHAP. X.
An ACT to repeal and act, entitled, An act respecting insolvent
debtors, and to revive another act, entitled, An
act for the relief
of insolvent debtors. |
Passed May
26. |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act of assembly,
entitled, An act respecting insolvent debtors, passed at a session of
assembly, begun and held at the city of Annapolis on the tenth day of
April, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, be and is hereby repealed. |
An act repealed. |
II. Provided
always, and be it enacted, That all applications to the chancellor
or county courts, as the case may be, for the benefit of the said act respecting
insolvent debtors, on or before the twenty-fourth day of May, instant,
and
all proceedings thereon, already made or hereafter to be made or done,
shall and may
be carried on and perfected in the same manner as if the above recited
act were in
full force and virtue, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Proviso. |
III. Be it enacted,
That an act, entitled, An act for the relief of insolvent
debtors, passed at a session of assembly, begun and held at the city of
Annapolis
on the twenty-third day of March, seventeen hundred and seventy-four, be
and
is hereby revived, and shall be in full force, and continue until the end
of the next
session of assembly which shall happen hereafter. |
An act revived. |
CHAP. XI.
An ACT for the
more effectual punishment of criminals. |
Passed May
27. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the commission
of burglary, robbery, horse-stealing, and other crimes, hath
greatly increased in this state: |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the governor,
with the advice and consent of the council, be authorised and requested,
from
time to time, during the continuance of this ac, to issue a commission
of oyer
and terminer and gaol delivery for the trial of any felony, or other crime,
offence
or misdemeanor, at any time heretofore committed, or hereafter to be committed
during the continuance of this act, in Baltimore county, and not particularly
by law directed to be tried in the general court, to five persons, residents
of the
same county for six months next before their appointment; and after the
issuing
such commission, all crimes, offences and misdemeanors, committed, or hereafter
to be committed during the continuance of this act, in Baltimore county,
and not particularly directed by law to be tried in the general court,
shall be
tried, heard and determined, before the said five persons, or any three
or more
of them, in court sitting, and not in the county court of the said county;
and
each of the said persons shall be a justice of the peace, and shall
have jurisdiction
as such within the said county in all criminal cases during the time he
shall
be in commission; and in case of death, resignation, or removal out of
the said
county, a new commission shall issue to fill up the place of the person
who shall
die, resign, or remove out of the said county; and no indictment found
before
the said justices shall be removed to the general court without their leave,
or the
special order of the general court, or some one of the judges of the
general court,
but any order by the said justices in the case of masters and servants,
or apprentices,
may be removed to the general court. |
Governor to
issue a commission,
&c. |
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