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Penalty on
sheriff, &c.
for neglect,
&c.
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SEC. 24. And be it enacted. That if any sheriff, coroner or
other public officer, to whose hands any writ, process or order,
of the chancery court, shall come or be delivered, shall refuse,
neglect or delay, to make return thereof, according to the tenor
and day of return of such writ, process or order, the same not
being countermanded, such sheriff, coroner or other public
officer, shall be in contempt, and process of contempt shall,
upon motion, be awarded and issued against him, and before
he shall be discharged from such contempt, he shall pay to the
register, as herein before provided, as a fine for the said con-
tempt, a sum not exceeding ten pounds current money, to be
imposed by the court, and the costs incurred by means thereof.
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On judg-
ment, &c.
chancellor
may issue
attachment,
&c.
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SEC. 25. And, to the end that all judgments and decrees of
the court of chancery, as well those which may pass upon bills
or petitions taken pro confesso, as in all other cases, may be
speedily and effectually executed and fulfilled, Be it further
enacted, That the plaintiff having obtained a judgment or de-
cree, and having served the defendant therein named with an
attested copy thereof under seal, upon affidavit made to the
satisfaction of the court of such service, and the refusal, neglect
or delay, of the defendant to obey, fulfil and perform, the same,
or leaving an attested copy under seal of the said decree at the
dwelling-house or last place of abode of the defendant, and
upon affidavit thereof made to the satisfaction of the court, that
the defendant could not or would not be found, so as to be per-
sonally served with such copy of the decree, or the plaintiff
making it appear to the satisfaction of the court, by affidavit,
that reasonable endeavours have been used to serve the defen-
dant with an attested copy of the decree, and give him due
notice thereof, but that the defendant could not or would not be
found so as to be served personally with the same, it shall and
may be lawful for the chancellor to issue attachment of con-
tempt, attachment with proclamations, and also sequestration,
against the defendant, until the decree shall be fully performed,
fulfilled and executed, and the contempts cleared, or to order
process of sequestration to issue to compel a performance of the
said decree, by an immediate sequestration of the real and per-
sonal estate and effects of the defendant, or such part thereof
as may be sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiff ia
the decree specified and decreed, and to clear the contempts,
or to issue fieri facias against the lands, tenements and
hereditaments, goods and chattels, of the defendant or de-
fendants, upon which sufficient property shall be taken and
sold to satisfy the demand of the plaintiff in the decree spe-
cified, or a capias ad satisfaciendum may be issued against
the defendant or defendants by the chancellor, upon which
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