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BENEDICT LEONARD CALVERT, Esq; Governor.
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1729. |
XIII. And be
it further Enacted, that an Act entitled, An Act providing
what shall be good Evidence to prove foreign and other Debts, and
to prevent vexatious
and unnecessary Suits at Law, pleading Discounts in Bar, shall
be, and is
hereby repealed and abrogated.
XIV. Provided
nevertheless, That it shall and may be lawful for any
Persons to prove any Account of Goods sold, Money lent, Work done,
or other
Matters or Articles properly chargeable in Account, which become due
at any Time heretofore, or shall become due before the Tenth Day of
March
next, according to the Directions of the said Act, so as all such Accounts
shall be Proved as aforesaid, at or before the Thirtieth Day of August,
which
shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty:
The Repeal of the said Act, or any Thing in this Act to the contrary
notwithstanding.
XV. And be it
further Enacted, That any Person who shall wittingly and
advisedly Swear or Affirm falsely, to any Account, before any Provincial
or
County Justice, and shall be thereof lawfully convict by Confession
or Verdict,
shall suffer the same Pains and Penalties as in case of corrupt and
wilful
Perjury.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP.
XX.
The Act of
1715, ch. 29,
repealed.
Proviso as to
Debts due
before the
10th March
1729.
False Swearing
to Accounts,
to be
punished as
Perjury. |
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CHAP. XXI.
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An Act for the Preservation of the Breed of Wild Deer. Lib.
L.
N° 5. fol.
301. REP. 1730, ch. 17. |
Passed 8th
August 1729. |
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CHAP. XXII.
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An Act reviving and continuing an Act, entitled, d
An Act to restrain the ill
Practices of Attorneys, and to prevent their
taking Money Fees, and ascertaining
what Fees shall be allowed to the Practitioners
in the Law who shall attend
the Circuit Courts; made at a Session of Assembly
begin and held at the City of
Annapolis, the 15th Day of March,
Anno Domini 1725. Lib. L. N° 5. fol. 302.
DISSENT.
d 1725,
ch.
22. Proclamation for Publication of the Dissent issued 7th May
1730. Recorded
Lib.
P.L. N° 6. fol
382. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XXIII.
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An Act for the Relief of Thomas Worsley, Hezekiah Clarke, and
Benjamin
Freeman, Prisoners in Ann-Arundel County
Goal. Lib. L. N° 5. fol. 303.
PR. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XXIV.
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An Additional and Supplementary ACT to the several Acts for
the Administration of Justice in Testamentary Affairs.
Lib.
L. N° 5. fol. 305. |
Ditto. |
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An Explanatory Act 1735, ch. 17.
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WHEREAS it is necessary, as well to explain several doubtful Clauses
in the Acts heretofore made for the Administration of Justice in
Testamentary Affairs, as to make Additions to supply some Defects
therein:
II. Be it therefore
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 the Authority of the same, That
no Negro, or
other Slave, shall be sold by any Executor or Administrator, or reserved
for
his or her own use, for the Payment of any Debt due or owing to any
Executor
or Administrator; nor shall any Negro, or other Slave, be taken in
Execution, for any Debt due from any Testator, or Intestate, so long
as there
shall be other Goods, which were of such Testator, or Intestate, sufficient
to
satisfy such Execution, the Executor or Administrator shewing such
other
Goods, which the Sheriff, or other Officer is hereby required to demand.
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Preamble.
No slave to
be sold, &c.
for Debts of
the Deceased,
so long as
there are other
Goods
sufficient.
But the Executor
shall
shew the
Goods, &c.
See 1715,
ch. 39, §. 7. |
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