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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
or any person or persons for whose use the said suit may be
brought, may have sustained, and upon such verdict, if for the
state, judgment shall be entered for the penalty of the bond, to
be released on the payment of the damages assessed by the
jury, with interest thereon till paid, and costs. |
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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
2. And be it enacted, That at the trial
of any suit now or
hereafter instituted upon the bond of any of the clerks of the
county courts, clerk of the court of appeals, register in chancery,
or register of wills; it shall be the duty of the said officers
respectively, when required, to exhibit to the court their dockets,
records and fee books, and the measure of damages shall
be the sum or sums they have charged for services they have
not performed. |
Records to
be exhibited;
damages graduated. |
3. And be it enacted, That upon a verdict
being found against
any of the officers aforesaid, for neglect of duty, it shall be considered
a misdemeanor in office; and the court, executive of the
state, or legislature, (as the case may be,) shall immediately
proceed to appoint a fit and qualified person in his place. |
Neglect of
duty, made a
misdemeanor
in office. |
4. And be it enacted, That the plea
of nondamnaficatus, shall
not be received or allowed to any suit now or hereafter brought
upon the bond of any clerk of the county courts, clerk of the
court of appeals, register in chancery, or register of wills. |
Plea of nondamnaficatus
prohibited. |
5. And be it enacted, That the county
clerks and registers of
wills shall hereafter renew their bonds at the fall term of the
county court in every second year. |
Clerks to renew
bonds at
fall terms of
courts. |
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CHAPTER 209.
A supplement to an act, entitled, an act to authorise a lottery, to
raise a
sum of money to clear out the creeks leading to and
from upper Malborough
and Queen Anne, in Prince George's County. |
Passed March
8, 1826. |
WHEREAS, it has been represented to this general
assembly,
that all the commissioners (except one) named in the act to
which this is a supplement, are dead, and that the lottery scheme
had been sold by them, for the sum of three thousand dollars,
which sum is now in the hands of Charles Clagett, the surviving
commissioner, and that the said Charles Clagett, has no
power to act alone and carry into effect the provisions of said
act in clearing out the creeks therein specified; Therefore, |
Preamble. |
Sec. 1.. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for David Crawford, Alexander
Mundell, John R. Magruder Junior, John Hodges, Dr.
Clement Smith, William T. Wootton, William Wells of George,
William D. Clagett and Thomas Soper, to act in the place of the
deceased commissioners, together with Charles Clagett, the
surviving commissioner; and that they, or a majority of them
may appropriate and expend the said sum of three thousand
dollars, agreeably to the provisions of the act to which this a
supplement. |
Commissioners
appointed
and empowered. |
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