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10 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
XXI.
Sheriffs shall
discount
Debts due
from them
out of any
Levies, &c.
and Notes
drawn on
them by public
Creditors,
&c.
Penalty on
Refusal.
Proviso. |
IV. And for
that several Persons having Tobacco in the Sheriffs Hands,
and drawing Notes for the same, sundry Sheriffs frequently refuse to pay
or
discount the Contents of such Notes, without an Allowance of Ten per Cent,
or some other Allowance, as a Reward for paying or discounting their own
just Debts, to the great Prejudice of the Public Credit, and of several
private
Persons; BE it Enacted, That the several
Sheriffs within this Province,
shall be obliged to discount any Debts due from them, or any of them,
to any of the Inhabitants of this Province, out of any Public or County
Levies,
Public Dues or Officers Fees, and to allow and discount the Contents of
any Note that shall be drawn, payable or indorsed to any Person being
indebted
to the Sheriffs on any of the Accounts already mentioned, so far as
they shall owe the Drawer of such Note, without any Deduction or Allowance
for such Discount, on Pain of forfeiting Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco
for every Offence, one Half thereof to the Lord Proprietary, for the
Use of Public Schools, where the Offence shall be committed, the other
Half
to the Party grieved, or other Person that will sue for the same; to be
recovered
by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin,
Protection or Wager of law shall be allowed.
V. Provided always,
That the Sheriff shall not be obliged to discount a
Parcel so as to break an entire Hogshead, except where the Parcel shall
be
due immediately from the Sheriff to the Debtor; any thing in this Act to
the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. XXII.
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Passed 4th
Nov. 1744. |
A Supplementary ACT to the * Act for encouraging the making
Hemp and Flax within this Province. Lib.
L. Nº 5. fol. 39.
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Preamble.
A TEnder of
Hemp and
Flax at the
Creditors
Dwelling-House,
&c.
shall be good
in Law;
Except Public,
County,
and Clergy's
Dues. |
WHEREAS by the before recited Act, which was made in the Year
Seventeen Hundred and Six, all Persons claiming Benefit thereby,
were obliged to tender to their Creditors their Hemp and Flax in
some Port or Town within this Province, there being at the Time of making
the said recited Act, several Towns in every County within this Province:
But forasmuch as there are now but few Towns or Ports within this Province,
so that by the before recited Act, as it now stands, sundry Inhabitants
of several Counties, for want of Towns and Ports, can have no Benefit thereof:
To prevent which, and that all Persons may reap the Benefit intended
them by the before recited Act.
II. BE it Enacted,
by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, 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 all Persons
hereafter
tendering Hemp and Flax to the Creditors, at the Creditors own Dwelling-Houses,
or at the Dwelling-house of the Creditor's Receiver, in case the Creditors
do not reside in the same County with their Debtors, shall have the
same Benefit and Advantage of the afore-recited Act, as if they had
tendered
the same to their Creditors in some port or Town within this Province,
according
to the Directions of the afore-recited Act; any thing in the said recited
Act of he contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
III. Provided,
That nothing in this Act shall affect the Public or County
Levy, or Forty per Poll due to the Clergy of this Province; any thing in
this or the before recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
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