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Chap. XXI
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An Act reviving and continuing the Act for Limitation of
Officers Fees, and for Supplying some Defects therein: And
for Amendment thereof in some Particulars, and restrain-
ing some ill Practices of Sheriffs.
Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tor, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly,
and the Authority of the same, That an Act of Assembly made
at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of An-
napolis, the Twenty-third Day of September, Anno Domini
Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-three, entitled, An Act reviv-
ing and continuing an Act, entitled, An Act for Limitation
of Officers Fees, and supplying some Defects therein, be, and
is hereby revived and continued to be and remain in Force
from and after the Twenty-fifth Day of September next, for
and until the Twenty-fifth Day of December, which shall be
in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-five,
and no longer.
II. And for that several Complaints have been made to
this Assembly, That several Sheriffs, merely to increase Fees
to themselves, have executed several Persons for Public and
County Levies, and Officers Fees, and charged Execution Fees
thereon, when they might have received their Dues without
such Execution; although they have and are allowed a large
Commission for collecting the same: And for that the Power
of Execution ought not to be used in Oppression of the People,
but only to enable the Sheriff to get in and collect the Public
Dues and Officers Fees with the greater Facility: And for that
Persons whose Goods are taken in Execution for Officers
Fees, are not expressly provided for by the Act to restrain
the ill Practice used by Sheriffs, in taking Goods by Fieri
facias, and selling them by Venditioni exponas, although
within the Reason and Intent thereof; which Omission gives
the Sheriffs frequent Opportunities of Oppressing many
of the poorer Sort of People: For Prevention of which In-
conveniency and Evils, Be it Enacted and Declared, That no
Sheriff shall be allowed any Fee or Reward, for executing
for any Public or County Levies, or any other Public Dues or
Officers Fees. And if the Sheriff shall transgress this Act,
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