LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1790-91.

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SEC. 2 And be it enacted. That instead of the poundage fees
allowed to the sheriff by the said first mentioned act, he be
allowed only at the rate of seven and a half per cent, for the
first ten pounds in money, or one thousand pounds of tobacco,
and the rate of three per cent, for the residue, in the same spe-
cies the execution shall issue for ; and that where execution or
attachment shall be made on lands held for years, or a greater
estate, only one-half of the poundage fees, but if the estate in
the land shall not be chargeable by appraisement, and delivered
to the plaintiff, or by sale of the sheriff, one-quarter part of the
poundage fees only shall be chargeable.
This section refers to the net of 1787, ch. 11, which was repealed by 1791,
ch. 51. See as to poundage fees, on the death of a sheriff .before a sale or
before the return day, 1813, ch. 102; on executions by constables, see 1821,
ch. 11.

CHAPTER 60.
AN ACT, for continuing the act, entitled, an Act for enlarging the power of
the High Court of Chancery, and the several supplementary acts to the
said act, and for increasing the power of the said court with respect to
the personal estates of idiots and lunatics.
See notes to the original act, ante page 208.

Poundage
fees ascer-
tained, &c.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
an act of assembly, made at a session begun and held at the
city of Annapolis, on Monday the seventh of November, seven-
teen hundred and eighty-five, entitled, *an act for enlarging the
powers of the high court of chancery, and the several supple-
mentary acts to the said act, be and are hereby continued, and
shall be and remain in full force until the thirtieth day of Octo-
ber, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, and to the end of the
next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter.

Several
acts conti-
nued.

*Chap. 72.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That for and during the conti-
nuance of the said act, the chancellor shall have fall power and
authority to direct the sale of any personal property belonging
to any idiot, lunatic, or person non compos mentis, whose per-
son and estate hath been, or shall be, committed to a trustee or
trustees, provided it shall appear to the said chancellor to be be-
neficial to the said idiot, lunatic, or person non compos mentis,
to convert the personal estate into money, and place the same on
interest; and provided that no sale of the said property be valid
until the purchase money be paid, or a bond taken for the same
in the name of the trustee or trustees, as such, with two good
securities, to be approved by the chancellor.

NOVEMBER, 1791.— CHAPTER 20.

Chancellor
may direct
the sale of
personal
property,
&c.

A Supplement to an ACT, entitled, *An Act for the speedy conveyance of
public letters and packets, and for other purposes.
Repealed by 1816, ch. 241.

* 1790, ch.
61.