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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1833.

Conduct ol
those
officers to
be deemed
directory.
Corpora-
tions not
liable to
suit or
penalty, but
for acts done
after ser-
vice of such
notice.
Sheriff,
clerk, &c.
debarred
plea.

Or their
securities.

to the conduct of clerks, sheriffs, coroners or other officers, are
all hereby declared to be directory ; Provided nevertheless, that
no corporation shall be subjected to any suit, action, penalty,
forfeiture, loss, injury or inconvenience, by force or pretence of
this act, but in respect of some act, neglect or omission, done,
committed, suffered or permitted after such corporation shall
have received a notice of seizure in writing, equivalent in sub-
stance to that herein before directed ; And provided also, that
no clerk, sheriff or coroner, or officer aforesaid, shall defend
themselves against any suit or action, by reason of any thing in
this section contained, where the plaintiff shall have sustained
any damage by any omission, neglect or error, of such clerk,
sheriff or coroner, or officer aforesaid, nor shall the securities of
any clerk, sheriff or coroner, or officer aforesaid, in any action
against them, or any of them, in the bond of such clerk, sheriff
or coroner, or officer aforesaid, have any benefit of any thing in
this section contained, which the said clerk, sheriff, coroner or
other officer, ought not have had.

Compensa-
tion—fees.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That all clerks, sheriffs and coro-
ners, or other officers aforesaid, shall be entitled to the same
fees for services rendered under this act, as for similar services
in other cases, and every sheriff or coroner, who shall make any
transfer of any stock or debt as aforesaid, which hath not been
sold by him, in pursuance of any order of any court, grounded
on the eighth section of this act, shall be entitled to the sum of
one dollar for his trouble, to be paid by the person to whom he
makes such transfer, and recovered over against the sheriff or
coroner, or other officer aforesaid, who ought to have made the
same.

CHAPTER 309.
AN ACT supplemental to an Act, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-two, entitled, an Act to repeal an Act, entitled, an
Act to abolish Imprisonment for Debt on certain Judgments rendered by
Justices of the Peace, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty, chapter one hundred and fifty-five.

Construc-
tion given.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
nothing contained in the act, to which this is a supplement,
shall be construed to extend to judgments obtained before the
twentieth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.

CHAPTER 314.

An ACT to repeal an Act, entitled, an Act making Appropriations for the
benefit of the American Colonization Society, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, chapter one hundred and
seventy-two.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by an act passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and twenty-six, chapter one hundred and seventy-two,