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elected or appointed, to collect all balances due to them as
sheriffs or collectors respectively, in the same manner as they
could or might collect such , balances before the expiration of
their respective times of serving in said office.
SEC. 3. This section repealed by 1816, ch. 17.
By 1820, ch. 48, sec. 3, further time may be granted upon application to
the county court.

CHAPTER 177.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to establish Pilots, and
regulate their Fees.
Merged in 1823, ch. 176.
See notes to the original act, ante page 483.

CHAPTER 182.

*1803, ch.
63.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to admit persons conscien-
tiously scrupulous of taking an oath to serve as Jurors.
See notes to the original law, ante page 565.

*Nov. 1809,
ch . 62.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the people called Quakers, those called Nicholites or New
Quakers, those called Menonists, Tunkers, and others holding
it unlawful to take an oath on any occasion, shall be allowed to
make their solemn affirmation, in the manner that they have
been heretofore allowed to affirm, which affirmation shall be of
the same avail as an oath, to all intents and purposes whatso-
ever.

Certain
persons
allowed to
affirm

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That before any of the persons
aforesaid shall be admitted as a juror in any court of justice in
this state, the court shall be satisfied by such testimony that
they may require, that such person is one of those who profess
to be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath.

CHAPTER 205.

Before such
persons are
admitted as
jurors court
to be
satisfied.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act to direct
Descents.
Consolidated in 1820, ch. 191.

CHAPTER 214.

*1786, eh.
45.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to regulate the
Inspection of Tobacco.
See notes to the original law, ante page 437.

•1801, ch.
63.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the inspectors at the several tobacco warehouses shall on
or before the first day of April next, and in the same month of
every year thereafter, cause to be inserted in some one of the
Baltimore newspapers, once in each week for three months, and
set up at the court-house door of his county an advertisement,
stating the name of the warehouse, the weight, gross, tare and

Inspectors
to advertise
tobacco
which has
remained in
warehouses
four years.