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SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor.
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1747. |
VII. Be it likewise
Enacted and Declared, That from and after the
End of this Session of Assembly, it shall not be lawful for any Attorney
practicing
within this Province, to charge or take more than one Fee, for or upon
any Bond or Bonds whatsoever, although there shall or may be one or
more
Surety or Sureties in such Bond or Bonds, for suing or bringing the
same to
Judgment and Execution, or for Defence of the same Action, rating such
Fee or Fees from the real Balance due and owing upon the Sum mentioned
in the Condition of such Bond or Bonds.
VIII. And be
it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That from
and
after the End of this Session of ASsembly, it shall not be lawful for
any
County Clerk within this Province, to issue or make out, any more than
One
Writ or Declaration on such Bond or Bonds, wherein the Principal and
Surety
or Sureties reside in one and the same County, but that in all such
Cases,
one Section only shall be founded on such Bond or Bonds; which Suit
shall
not abate during the Life of any one of the Defendants; and the Clerks
Fees
arising thereon, shall be chargeable accordingly, and not otherwise.
IX. Provided
always, That in all Actions hereafter to be commenced in
the Provincial Court on such Bond or Bonds, where the Principal and
Surety
or Sureties therein reside in different Counties, in such Case separate
Process
shall and may issue thereon; but that where any Two of the parties
to such
Bond or Bonds reside in one and the same County, one Writ only shall
issue
to such County, including both Defendants Names therein, and all Fees
arising thereon shall be chargeable as one Suit only, and not otherwise.
X. Provided always,
That nothing herein contained shall extend, or be
construed to extend, to any Action or Suit where the Plaintiff shall
give Directions
to any Attorney or Attorneys, to commence several Actions, or where
a Titling or Titlings shall be sent to the said Office or Offices,
for the suing
of several Writs on one and the same Bond.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP.
XXIII.
No more than
one Attorney's
Fee to
be charged on
any Bond
with Sureties.
Such Fee to
be rated from
the Balance.
No more than
one Writ,
&c. to be issued
on such
Bonds, where
the Defendants
reside
in the same
County.
But separate
Process may
issue, where
they reside in
different
Counties, &c.
Proviso, with
regard to the
Plaintiff's
Directions,
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CHAP. XXIV.
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An ACT repealing an Act of Assembly, entitled, * " An Act
" to enable the Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens,
for
" the Time being, of St. Anne's parish, in
Ann-Arundel
" County, to Lease certain Lots in the the
City of Annapolis, in
" Manner, and to the Uses therein mentioned:"
And to enable
the said Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens,
to Lease
certain Lots of Land, within the said City of Annapolis.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 425. |
Passed 11th
July 1747.
* 1742, ch. 22. |
WHEREAS the Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens, of St.
Anne's Parish, in Anne-Arundel County, have by their
humble
Petition to this General Assembly, set forth, That by an Act of
Assembly, made and passed at a Session of Assembly begun and held at
the
City of Annapolis, on the Twenty-first Day of September
Seventeen Hundred
and Forty-two, entitled, An Act to enable the Rector, Vestry-men
and Church-wardens,
for the Time being, of St. Anne's Parish, in Anne-Arundel
County, to
Lease certain Lots in the City of Annapolis, in Manner, and
to the Uses therein
mentioned, Power was given to Lease the Lots in the said City,
Numbered respectively
Fifty-nine, Sixty, Sixty-one, for Three Lives, or Twenty-one
Years, as by the said Act may appear. And further they set forth,
that tho'
they have, since the passing the aforesaid Act, spared no Pains to
find Tenants
for the said Lots under the said Act, that such Endeavours, have proved
ineffectual
by reason of the short Limitation of Time for which they could make |
Preamble. |
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