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to be paid them likewise out of the Public Levy of this Prov-
ince as aforesaid. And the several Commissioners of the
County Courts shall be allowed, for the defraying their
Expences, during the Time they shall sit and attend such
Court as aforesaid, the Sum of Eighty Pounds of Tobacco per
Day, and no more, which Sum of Eighty Pounds of Tobacco
as aforesaid, the Commissioners of the County Courts are
hereby impowered to assess and levy on the Taxable Persons
of the several Counties where such Commissioners shall serve
as aforesaid, for the defraying the Expences aforesaid, and no
more.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act.
Reverdy Ghiselin
Thomas Bacon
An Act to restrain the ill Practices used by Sheriffs in taking
Goods by Fieri facias, and selling them by Venditioni
exponae.
Whereas many of 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 satisfy
the Debt, Damages and Costs 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 ;
H. 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 by the Authority 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, when thereto required, or where Judgment is
rendered against him, as an Executor or Administrator, shew
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