PUBLIC GENERAL LAW

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May, on application, issue an order for the payment of a sum, not ex-

ceeding $30 per annum, till the child shall arrive at the age of seven

years, on failure whereof scire facias may issue on the recognizance

—1796, ch. 34, ..........

333

See Fornication.

May take the probat of accounts, &.c. — 1785, ch. 46, ....

199

May issue a warrant to arrest any person pardoned on condition of

leaving the state, who returns contrary thereto, and may commit

him— Nov. 1787, ch. 17, sec. 4, ......

248

May, on application by a person whose property has been taken for

taxes, give a warrant to the county clerk to issue a writ of replevin

for such property, on the proofs and in the manner therein pre-

scribed— 1790, ch. 53, sec. 2, 3, p. 264 ; sec, 9, .

266

See Replevin.

May take children who are destitute or suffering, or the children of

beggars, and place them with some person tili the meeting of the

orphans court, to be then bound out — 1793, ch. 45, sec. 3, .

296

See Apprentices.

May issue a warrant to the clerk of the county court for an attachment

in the cases and in the manner therein prescribed — 1795, ch. 66,

sec. 1, .........

320

See Attachment.

May give judgment for the fines under the act for the establishment of

vestries— 1798, ch. 24, sec. 27, .......

365

See Vestries.

May appoint appraisers to appraise property not returned in a former

inventory— 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 6, sec. 10, ....

387

May take the acknowledgments of conveyances of lands, &c. — See

Conveyances.

May, in the recess of the court, on complaint, or their own observa-

tion of misbehaviour, &c. suspend an ordinary-keeper till the next

court — March, 1780, ch. 24, sec. 7, ......

160

See Ordinary Keepers.

May grant license to keep ferry on the death of a ferry-keeper between

the courts — Nov. 1781, ch. 22, sec. 4, .....

176

See Ferries.

May grant license to keep ferry, (at any place used as such,) till the

meeting of the court, taking recognizance — April, 1782, ch. 31,

177

May take the confession of a judgment as a supersedeas to stay execu-

tion on a judgment in a court of law, or before a justice of the

peace — 1791, ch. 67, sec. 1, 2, 3,

274

See Supersedeas.

May issue a warrant to summon a jury in the case of tenants refusing

to quit lands, &c. leased to them, and on their verdict may award

restitution — 1793, ch. 43, .

292

See Distress.

May, in the recess of the orphans court, bind out as apprentices or-

phan children, the profits of whose estates are not sufficient for