LAWS OF MARYLAND—1777. m
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the oaths to the governor
shall be administered to him by the president of the senate in
the senate house, in the presence of the members of the general
assembly; and the oaths to the members of the council shall be
administered by the president of the senate, or any judge or
justice; and the oaths to the chancellor shall be administered
to him by the governor, at the time of delivering to him the
great seal of this state; and any judge or justice may qualify
before any one in commission with him, or before any qualified
judge or justice, which qualification shall be certified by the judge
or justice before whom the same is made, and shall be recorded
by the court of which the judge or justice so qualified is or
shall be a member.
See 1805, ch. 65, sec. 3.
CHAPTER 6.
AN ACT to direct in what manner all fines, forfeitures and penalties,
shall be recovered, and in what manner fines, forfeitures, penalties and
amerciaments, shall be applied. |
By whom
to be ad-
ministered. |
Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all fines, penalties and forfeitures, directed and imposed by any
of the laws now in force, and alt fines, penalties and forfeitures,
which shall hereafter be inflicted and imposed, and no mode of
recovery or application shall be directed, shall and may be
recovered in manner following, to wit: Where the sum doth
not exceed five pounds current money, the same shall and may
be recovered, with costs, in the name of this state and the in-
former, before any one justice of the peace of the county where
the offence shall be committed; and where the sum exceeds
five pounds current money, the same shall and may be recover-
ed, with costs, in the county court of the county where the
offence shall happen, by indictment, in the name of this state,
or by action of debt in the name of this state and the informer,
in which it shall be sufficient to allege that the defendant is
indebted to this state and the informer in the fine, penalty or
forfeiture, by this act directed and imposed, whereby action
accrued, without setting forth the special matter, provided the
cause of action be endorsed on the writ at the time of the issuing
thereof; and where any fine, penalty or forfeiture, shall be re-
covered before a justice of the peace, such justice shall either
commit the offender to the public gaol till payment to the sheriff
of the county, or by warrant to any constable, shall direct and
order the same to be levied, with the costs of execution, on the
offender's goods or chattels, and shall annually return to the
treasurer of his shore a list of the fines, penalties or forfeitures,
recovered before him; and the constable collecting the same
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Fines, &c.
how to be
recovered,
&c. |
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