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said amerciament, (which the chancellor may, in his discretion,
as he may see just cause, continue, or enlarge or increase, from
court to court,) shall be no longer continued, enlarged or in-
creased, and thereby become final, the chancellor may, upon
motion, order the said sheriff, coroner, or other public officer or
person, to pay the said amerciament and costs to the plaintiff or
other person at whose instance the said amerciament is made,
and fine for contempt, and upon a non-compliance with the said
order for payment, may issue process of fieri facias against the
lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods and chattels, of the
said sheriff, coroner or other public officer, which shall there-
upon be taken and sold to satisfy such amerciament and fine
for contempt, or the chancellor may issue a capias ad satisfa-
cieridum against such sheriff, coroner or other public officer, for
the said amerciament and fine for contempt, and there shall be
the same proceedings thereon as at common law, or the chan-
cellor may, upon motion, order the said sheriff, coroner, or other
public officer or person so amerced, and in court upon process
of contempt, or otherwise, to stand committed and be kept in
close custody until the said amerciament and costs, and fine for
contempt, be fully satisfied ; and in case the amerciament
aforesaid shall not be satisfied and paid by means aforesaid,
within six months from the time it may be ordered to be paid
to the plaintiff or other person at whose instance the said amer-
ciament is laid, then, and immediately thereafter, such plaintiff
or other person at whose instance the said amerciament is laid,
or any person representing such person, may sue the securities
of such sheriff, coroner or other public officer, their heirs, exe-
cutors or administrators respectively , upon the office bond given
by such sheriff, coroner or other public officer, and such secu-
rities, and their heirs, executors or administrators respectively,
having assets, shall be liable upon such suits to pay and satisfy
such amerciament, or any part thereof which may remain unsa-
tisfied by such sheriff, coroner or other public officer; provided
always, that if the said sheriff, coroner, or other public officer or
persons, so amerced, shall, at any time before the said amercia-
ment is made final as aforesaid, bring into and have in court
the body of the person arrested or taken according to the return
of the said first mentioned process or order, the said sheriff,
coroner or other public officer, shall be released and discharged
from the said amerciament upon payment of the costs incurred,
and the fine for contempt.
By 1818, ch. 193, sec. 6, the provisions of the act of 1797, ch. 43, for
the speedy recovery of moneys levied or received by sheriffs and collectors,
are extended to the court of chancery, and the county courts, as courts of
equity.
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