LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1770-73. 181
bill, plaint or information, wherein no essoin, protection, or
wager of law, nor more than one imparlance, shall be allowed.
Continued by November, 1792, ch. 76, to October 30, 1799—then to
1805, and since by the annual continuing law.
SEPTEMBER, 1770—CHAPTER 10.
AN ACT to oblige the several County Clerks to have with them, on then
office days, the four last court dockets and papers. |
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WHEREAS by the act* to enable the several and respective
county clerks within this province to remove some of the
county records and papers from the public offices, a liberty is
given to the said clerks to remove and take out their four last
courts dockets and papers next preceding the time of such
taking out, and the same to keep in their own houses for their
convenience, under which liberty it is found, that some of the
said clerks, who live a considerable distance from their public
offices, omit to bring with them the said dockets and papers on
office days, by which means many people, who go to the said
offices to get bills of cost or issue executions, are disappointed
in having their business done; |
Preamble.
*1748, ch. 7. |
SEC. 2. 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 Assem-
bly, and the authority of the same, That every county clerk in
this province shall bring with him, upon every office day on
which he is obliged by law to attend at the county court-house
of his respective county, the four last courts dockets and papers
next preceding every such day of attendance, under the penalty
or forfeiture of thirty shillings current money to the party
grieved for every neglect or omission thereof, to be recovered
before one justice of the peace, with costs.
NOVEMBER, 1773—CHAPTER 7.
AN ACT for the amendment of the law.
A Supplementary act October, 1778, ch. 22. |
Clerks to
bring their
dockets,
&c. |
Be it enacted, by the right honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the advice and consent of his Governor, and the
Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the authority of
the same, That from and after this session of assembly, per-
sons under the age of one and twenty years, and persons being
idiot, lunatic, or non compos mentis, seized or possessed of any
lands, tenements or hereditaments, in trust, or by way of mort-
gage, or seized or possessed thereof, charged or chargeable with
the payment of money or tobacco, and therefore subject or
liable to a decree for sale, or bound by an agreement to convey,
made by some person or persons having right or title to make
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Persons
under age,
&c. in cer-
tain cases
shall con-
vey, &c. |
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