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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1755-1756
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522 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

County Court shall, on the second Tuesday of June next, take Cog-
nizance of, proceed in, hear and determine, all such Actions and Busi-
ness, in as full and ample Manner as they might or ought to have
done, if the said Court had not been discontinued as aforesaid; any
Defect whatsoever in the Continuance of the County Court, for the
said County, or any Want of Continuance, or other Defect therein,
or any Thing in the Act For limitting the Continuance of Actions,
in any wise, notwithstanding.
And be it further Enacted, That all Writs, Precepts, and Process,

[All Writs,
&c. con-
tinued to
the second
Tuesday
in June.]

Recognizances, and other Matters, returnable to the said Court, and
not then determined, shall be, and are hereby declared to be continued
to the second Tuesday in June next; any Thing in the said Writs,
Precepts, Process, Recognizances, or other Matters, to the contrary,
notwithstanding. And that all Persons, Matters, and Things, taken
or affected by such Process, and all Persons summoned, or bound by
Recognizance, to appear and attend at the said Court, shall be obliged
in the same Manner, and under the same Penalties and Forfeitures,
to appear and attend at the said County Court, to be held on the sec-
ond Tuesday of June next, as they were respectively under for their
Appearance and Attendance at the said March Court. And that all
Bail Bonds, for the Appearance of Persons arrested on Writs, return-
able to the said March Court, shall be assignable, and the Sheriff
amerciable for Default of the Defendants Appearance at the said
Court, on the second Tuesday of June next, in the same Manner as
they would have been in the like Case at the said March Court.
And whereas many Persons, who are Plaintiffs in Actions depend-
ing in Cecil County Court aforesaid, at the Time of the Discontinu-
ance thereof, would, had it not been for the said Discontinuance,
have had Judgments on the same, or been entitled thereto at the said
March Court: And whereas some of those Persons may be indigent
and necessitous, and may greatly, if not wholly, depend on the Sum
of Money or Tobacco for which they have commenced and prosecuted
such Actions, for supplying their Necessities, Payment of their
Debts, or carrying on the Business of their Professions :

p. 255

[Executions
issued on
Judgments
had in June,
to be under
the like Cir-
cumstances
with those
in March.]

Be it Enacted, by and with the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That on all Judgments, which shall be had and recov-
ered at June Court next, in Actions which are, by this Act, continued
from March Court aforesaid, and upon which Judgments would have
been obtained at the said Court, had it not been for the Discontinu-
ance aforesaid; it shall and may be lawful, at any Time before the
tenth Day of August next, to issue Executions to satisfy the Debts,
Damages, and Costs, therein mentioned; which said Executions shall
stand in the same Condition, and be equally available to the Person
or Persons suing out the same, as if the same had been sued out
before the tenth Day of May; any Thing in any of the Laws this



 
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