Acts. 171

And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and
with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That the Tobacco to be
raised by the aforesaid before recited Act, for building a Church,
be applied to the building a Church in the Town aforesaid, and
not elsewhere, notwithstanding the said Act, or any Thing done
in Pursuance thereof; and that the Tobacco be applied for, and
levied in Manner, as by the said Act, for the building a Church is
directed; any Law to the contrary, notwithstanding.

Session
Laws

A Supplementary Act to the Act, Intituled, An Act for the Advance-
ment of Justice.

Whereas, by the Act, Intituled, An Act for the Advancement of
Justice, made at a General Assembly, begun and held at Annapolis,
the Twenty Second Day of September, Anno Domini Seventeen
Hundred and Twenty Three, and since revived, it is Enacted, That in
all Actions that should thereafter be commenced in the Provincial
Court, for the Recovery of any certain Sum of Money, or Quantity
of Tobacco, within the Jurisdiction of that Court, where the Plaintiff
should be desirous of a speedy Recovery; that if the Plaintiff should
send a Copy of the Declaration in the Case, with the Writ, and cause
the same to be served on, or delivered to the Defendant, or left at
his or her Place of Abode, Twenty Days, at least, before the
Appearance Court, it should and might be lawful for the Justices of
the said Court, and they were, by the said recited Act, required to
proceed to Trial, the same Court; and if the Defendant should refuse
or neglect to answer, or plead, to render Judgment for the Plaintiff,
with Costs of Suit; unless sufficient Cause should be shewn by the
Defendant, why there should be an Imparlance, as by the said
recited Act, Relation being thereunto had, may appear.
And to the End, That no Person who shall not be found and
served with the usual Process, and against whom any Judgment shall
be rendered henceforth, by Virtue of the said Act, where the Debt
or Damage sued for, or any Part thereof, is now, or at any Time
before the Commencement of such Suit, shall be paid, shall be injured
or surprized by such Judgment :

Chap. X
Supple-
ments 1723,
ch. 12

Be It Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governour,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That when, and as often as any Sum of Money, Quantity
of Tobacco, or other Goods shall be taken in Execution, or any Land
shall be extended, by Virtue of any Judgment that shall be rendered
against any Person, who shall not be arrested, or taken, upon, and
by Virtue of the usual Process in the Case, the Person, to whose Use
any Money, Tobacco, or other Effects shall be levied, or any Land
extended, shall be obliged to give sufficient Security in the Provincial

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