LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

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CHAPTER 285.
A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT cencerning Crimes and
Punishments.
Repealed by 1837, ch. 320.

CHAPTER 290.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act for the speedy
recovery of Small Debts out of Court, and to repeal the Acts of Assem-
bly therein mentioned.

*1791, ch.

68.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the legal notice to be given by any constable, of the sale
of any goods and chattels, (negro slaves excepted) hereafter to
be made, by virtue of any fieri facias or venditioni exponas, is-
sued according to the provisions of the original act, to which
this is a supplement, and the several supplements thereto, shall
be by advertisement, set up, at least ten days before the day of

Notice of
legal con-
stables sales
required.

sale, at two of the most public places in the county, most con-
venient to such goods and personal chattels ; and in the case of

Of goods
and chattels

the sale of negro slaves, lands and tenements, by virtue of any
writ as aforesaid, notice thereof shall be given, by advertise-
ment, set up, at least twenty days before the day of sale, at the
court-house door of the county, and at two of the most public
places in the county most convenient to such negro slaves,
lands and tenements, and published for the same period of time,
previous to the day of sale, in some newspaper; Provided, there
be any printed in the county where such sale may be made.

Of negroes,
land or
tenements.
Advertise-
ment in
newspapers

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful
for any constable or sheriff, by virtue of any fieri facias or ven-
ditioni exponas as aforesaid, on any judgment rendered by a
justice of the peace, to seize and sell the right, title, claim,
interest, and estate, at law, and in equity, of the party or parties
against whose property said execution shall have issued, to, and
in, and out, of any lands or tenements, and real estate, within
the county in which such execution shall issue; and that said
constable or sheriff, shall make return of said fieri facias or ven-

Eight and
title to
either real
or personal
property
may be sold
by consta-
ble or
sheriff to
satisfy
judgments.

ditioni exponas, and all his proceedings thereunder, in and
about said sale, therein setting forth the terms and length of
notice, and manner, and times, and places of publication, or
giving notice of the said sale, to the justice of the peace autho-
rized to receive the return of such fieri facias or venditioni ex-
ponas; and all said return, together with the warrant, and the
proceedings of said magistrate thereunder, and the said fieri
facias or venditioni exponas, shall, by the justice of the peace

Return of
sale and
proceedings
to be made
to the
magistrate.

who shall receive such return, be forthwith delivered to the
clerk of the county court of the county aforesaid, to be by said
clerk recorded as sales under execution on judgments of county
courts are, or shall be required to be recorded; for which re-

Who shall
return the
same to the
county
clerk.