156 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1780.
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it shall be lawful for the sheriff to take such person in exe-
cution for the money so due as aforesaid; and the sheriff
shall, on or before the twentieth day of October yearly,
pay to each creditor all the money he shall or might have
received in satisfaction of their several and respective debts,
and if any sheriff shall not make payment according to the
directions of this act, such sheriff shall forfeit and pay to the
party grieved, if he shall sue the sheriff only, double the
money, to be recovered with costs, by action of debt or action
on the case, founded on this act, in which it shall be sufficient
for the plaintiff to allege, that the defendant is indebted to him
or received to his use the sum of money claimed by him,
whereby action accrued to him according to the form of this
act, without setting forth the special matter, but if the party
shall sue on the sheriff's bond, he shall recover only his debt,
interest and cost. |
Suits when
to be com-
menced. |
SEC. 19. And be it enacted. That no prosecution or suit
shall be commenced for any penalty or forfeiture imposed by
this act, unless within one year from the time of the offence
committed.
SEC. 20, 21. Excepted October, 1780, ch. 23, out of the continuance act.
SEC. 22. Supplanted by 180G, ch. 41 ; 1820, ch. 204.
SEC. 23. Supplanted by 1820, ch. 204; continued by 1798. ch. 71, to
1805, and continued by 1805, ch. 109, and continued thereafter in the
annual continuing act.
MARCH, 1780.—CHAPTER 8.
AN ACT to declare and ascertain the privileges of the subjects of France
residing within this state. |
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Preamble. |
WHEREAS, in and by the thirteenth article of the treaty of
amity and commerce between his most Christian majesty and
the United States of America, it is provided, that the subjects
and inhabitants of the said United States, or any of them, shall
not be reputed aubains in France, and consequently shall be
exempted from the droit d'aubain or other similar duty, under
what name soever they may by testament, donation, or other-
wise, dispose of their goods, moveable and immoveable; and
their heirs, subjects of the said United States, residing whether
in France or elsewhere, may succeed them ab intestat without
being obliged to obtain letters of naturalization, and without
having the effect of this concession contested or impeded, under
pretext of any rights or prerogatives of provinces, cities, or
private persons, and the said heirs, whether such by particular
title, or ab intestat, should be exempt from the droit d'detraction
m other duty of the same kind, saving nevertheless, the local
rights or duties as much and as long as similar ones are not
established by the United States or any of them: And whereas |
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