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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1837.

CHAPTER 131.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT to fix and make permanent the Salaries of

certain Officers of the Civil Government.

Governor

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

f4,200.

That the following officers of the civil government, hereafter to

be elected and appointed, shall be entitled to receive at the rate

of the following annual salaries,"in current money, whilst they

continue in office, that is to say : the governor the sum of four

thousand two hundred dollars; the secretary of state the sum of

two thousand dollars, to be in full for all services that the law

does now or may hereafter require said officer to perform : and

Residence

they are hereby required to reside at the seat of government ;

prescribed.

the messenger to the governor, who shall be appointed by, and

Messenger
$400.

hold his office during the pleasure of the governor, and perform

the duties now attached to the office of messenger of the execu-

tive council, the sum of four hundred dollars.

Messenger
of council

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the office of messenger of

abolished.

the executive council, be, and the same is hereby abolished.

CHAPTER 133.

AN ACT supplementary to an Act, entitled, an Act to establish Magis-

trates1 Courts in the several Counties of this Slate, and to prescribe their

Jurisdiction, passed December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five,

chapter two hundred and one.

Sheriff or

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

constable

That when any sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable, shall make

may take
appearance

an arrest on any capias issued by virtue of the act of assembly,

bond of

passed December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five,

person
arrested.

entitled, an act establishing magistrates' courts in the several

counties of this state, he may take a bond from the person or

persons so arrested, in a sum not exceeding one hundred dol-

lars, where the plea of debt does exceed the sum of fifty dollars,

conditioned for his, her or their appearance before the district

court, agreeably to the command of the capias, to answer the

suit of the plaintiff; and if the defendant, on refusing to give

such bond, with sufficient security, the sheriff, deputy sheriff or

Imprison if

constable, may lodge such defendant or defendants iu the jail of

not given.

the county in which said defendant or defendants may reside,

to be safely kept by the sheriff of said county, until the return

day of said capias.

Case of

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That when there are more than

several

one obligor to any note, bond, bill, or other instrument of writ-

obligors on
note, bond,

ing, for the payment of any sum of money, not exceeding one

&c.

hundred dollars, suit may be brought against all the obligors, or

any of them, in the same election district where the first named

obligor resides ; Provided, they all reside in the same county.