342 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 27-Nov. 14, 1713.

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due for the several Services aforementioned, to be raised and
assessed upon the Inhabitants of the County, where such Ser-
vices shall be done, by the Justices thereof, at the Time of the
Laying the County Levy, and by them to be ordered to whom
due. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
by and with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That One Act
of Assembly of this Province, made at a General Assembly
held at the City of Annapolis the Twenty eighth Day of
October, in the Year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and
twelve, Intituled, An Act for Killing Squirrels, and every
Article, Matter, Clause, and Thing therein contained, shall
be, and is hereby utterly Repealed and made Void.
Pass'd November 14^th 1713.

p. 70

An Act to restrain the ill Practice used by Sheriffs in taking
Goods by Fieri facias, and selling them by Venditioni
exponas.

Whereas many the good People of this Province have of
late been greatly damnified and abused in their Estates by
Sheriffs, who, upon Receipt of any Fieri facias, or Attachment
issued out of the Courts of this Province, take, by Virtue of
such Writs, great Quantities of Goods, more than will satisfie
the Debt, Damages and Cost in such Writs mentioned, and
keep them a long Time in their Custody, under pretence of
want of Buyers; whereupon it often happens, upon the Return
of the said Sheriffs, that Writs of Venditioni exponas are
issued, commanding them to put the said Goods to Sale,
which for the most part hath been done privately, and Goods
of great Value have not been sold for the Tenth Part of their
Value, to the great Loss of both the Debtor and Creditor, and
to the Ruin of some Families; For the Prevention whereof for
the future, and to ascertain a Way and Method whereby the
Sheriffs of this Province may securely Act in Writs of the like
Nature, more to the Benefit and Advantage of both Debtor
and Creditor, Be it Enacted by the Queen's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Presi-
dent, Council, and Assembly of this Province, and the Au-
thority of the same, That from and after the End of this
present Session of Assembly if any Writ of Fieri facias shall
be delivered to any Sheriff of this Province, if the Defendant,
where the Judgment is against him for his proper Debt or
Cost, will upon Oath shew all his Personal Estate, or (where
Judgment is rendred against him as an Executor or Adminis-
trator) shew all the Personal Estate of the Deceased, in his
Hands unadministred, to the Sheriff or his Deputy, so that