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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1838.

schooners, or steamboats, and shall have full power and autho-

rity to decree a sale of any ship, vessel, schooner, or steamboat,

held by part owners, and to apportion the proceeds thereof

among the parties interested, according to their respective inte-

rests, and shall in general have, use and exercise all such juris-

diction, power and authority, as now are used and exercised by

Provided

the chancery courts of this state, in cases of partnership ; Pro-

party re-
sides, &c.

vided nevertheless, that the said county courts, as courts of

equity, shall not hold jurisdiction in any case where the defen-

dants, defendants, or some one of them, is not a resident of the

county where the bill is filed.

CHAPTER 329.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to restrain the rigor of Pro-

secutions on Testamentary or Administration Bonds, passed October

session, seventeen hundred and twenty, chapter twenty-four.

Persons ha-

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

ving claims.

any person or persons having any claim, or demand, or damages,

against a deceased person, or against the executor or administra-

tor as such, of said deceased, shall be authorized to sue the said

administrator or executor, in the county where the said admi-

nistrator or executor may have taken out letters on said estate,

On return

and upon a return of non est inveatus on a writ of capias ad

of non est
inventus.

respondendum against said administrator or executor, or a return

Or nulla

of nulla bona, on a writ of fieri facias, against said administrator

bona.

or executor, in the county in which said suit is brought, the

Bond of ad-

bond of said administrator or executor, may be put in suit, in

ministrator
may be sued

the name of the state, for the use of such creditor or creditors,

and recovery be had thereon, in the same manner as debts are

now recovered by suit on such bonds.

CHAPTER 336.
AN ACT relating to the Commissioner of Loans.

Surrender
bond.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the governor be, and he is hereby authorized and directed,
to surrender the bond of the late commissioner of loans, as soon
as he produces the receipt of the present commissioner of loans,
for the balance now on deposite to his credit, in the Union
Bank of Maryland.

Deposites
directed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall and is hereby de-
clared to be the duty of the commissioner of loans, to deposite
all money which he receives by virtue of his office, to the credit
of the commissioner of loans of the state of Maryland.