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drawing and signing by the chancellor of a final decree, or
decree in chancery granting relief, or dismissing the bill or
original petition, one dollar; drawing and signing by the chan-
cellor of every interlocutory decree or order in chancery relative
to a cause, half a dollar ; every final adjudication in the land
office, on caveat, to be paid by the party gaining, and to be
allowed as other costs, one dollar; every order in the land
office, at the instance of the party, half a dollar ; the seal of a
subpoena or summons from chancery, for each name one quarter
of a dollar ; the seal of a grant or patent of land not exceeding
three hundred acres, two dollars ; the seal of a grant or patent
of land exceeding three hundred acres, for each one hundred
acres above three hundred, one quarter of a dollar; the seal of
a decree if required, three dollars ; the seal of an injunction, or
of a writ of error to the court of appeals, three dollars ; the seal
of a writ of execution, or of a writ of error from a county court,
two dollars ; the seal of a sheriff's commission, four dollars and
two-thirds of a dollar ; the seal of every commission to a civil
office, (except justices of the peace and of the orphans court,)
to which any salary for, or allowance, is annexed, two dollars ;
the seal to every other matter or thing that shall pass the great
seal, and not herein contained, two dollars ; provided neverthe-
less, that the state be not charged for any seal directed for the
use of the public only, or for any service whatever herein men-
tioned.
Tax for fixing the great seal to papers issuing out of chancery, abolished
by 1830, ch. 187.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all the said sums so to be
paid according to the said table, shall be taxed and paid as
other costs.
SEC. 5. Repealed by 1820, ch. 204.
SEC , 6. See note to 2d section.
Continued by 1797, ch. 51, for seven years, and continued since by the
annual continuing acts.
NOVEMBER, 1793.— CHAPTER 34.
AN ACT to define and ascertain the powers of the Governor on the subject
therein mentioned.
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WHEREAS by the thirty-third article of the constitution and
form of government, the governor is authorized to order and
compel any vessel to ride quarantine, if such vessel, or the port
from which she shall have come, shall, on strong grounds, be
suspected to be infected with the plague : And whereas circum-
stances may render it necessary that other and more effectual
steps should be pursued for preventing the introduction of the
plague, or other malignant contagious diseases, into this state,
and doubts may arise whether the power communicated by the
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