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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1800-01.

misbeha-
viour in
office.

and eastern shores respectively, before the first day of Septem-
ber next, such neglect shall be deemed, taken and considered,
to be a misbehaviour in office.

CHAPTER 85.

* 1794, ch.
53,

AN Additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, * entitled, an act for the establish-
ment and regulation of the Levy Courts in the several counties of this
state.

See notes to 1794, ch. 53 ; ante page, 306.

Before sale
of property
an account
to be deli-
vered.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
before any personal property shall be seized, distrained or sold,
by any collector of the county assessment to enforce the pay-
ment thereof, the said collector shall deliver to the person from
whom the same is demanded, or leave at his or her last place of
abode, a particular account of the species and amount of pro-
perty with which such person is assessed, the rate of tax im-
posed thereon, and the amount of such tax.

NOVEMBER, 1801.— CHAPTER 42.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, An Act for the speedy recovery of
Small Debts, and to repeal the eighth section thereof, passed at November

*Chap. 68.

session, seventeen hundred and ninety-one.*
See notes to the original act, ante page 277.

Witnesses
not attend-
ing accord-
ing to
summons
may be
attached by
justice.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases where witnesses do not attend according to
summons, the justice of the peace before whom such witnesses
ought to have attended, shall and may enforce obedience to his
process by attachment of contempt, to be made returnable before
the justice of the peace issuing the same, or such other justice
of the peace before whom the same shall be returned, who is
hereby authorized and required to take cognizance thereof, and
shall and may, at the discretion of such justice of the peace
before whom the same shall be heard, tried and determined,
fine the offender in any sum not exceeding twenty shillings
current money of Maryland for every such offence, to be applied
towards defraying the charges of the county wherein the same
shall be recovered .

Execution
to issue
upon refu-
sal to pay.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every justice of the peace by
whom such fine shall be imposed, shall, upon refusal of the
offender to pay the same, issue execution to the constable to
levy said fine, with costs of execution, on the offender's lands,
goods or chattels, and the constable receiving the said fine shall
pay the same to the justice by whom such execution was issued,
who shall, in every year oa or before the first day of January,
make return of every such fine, and pay the same over to the
clerk of the county wherein the same was recovered.