46 LAWS OF MARYLAND—1717.
Any person
may order
out process,
&c. |
SEC. 2. Be it therefore enacted, by the right honourable, the
Lord Proprietary, by and with the advice and consent of his lord-
ship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly,
and the authority of the same. That it shall and may be law-
ful for any person or persons whatsoever within this province, to
order out process in their own proper names, without any tilling
from an attorney for the same, and the several and respective
clerks of the several offices of the provincial and county courts
of this province are hereby obliged, upon application to them
made by any person or persons as aforesaid, to issue such writs
as shall be by them demanded, the party or parties suing out
the same, if non-residents within this province, securing to the
secretary, or the clerks of the several county courts, and all
other officers, their lawful fees; and that any person or persons
whatsoever that shall hereafter be sued or impleaded in the
provincial court, or any of the county courts within this pro-
vince, shall and may, in his or their own proper persons, come
into court, and after special bail by him or them given, if ad-
judged so to do, to appear and imparle till next court, or to
confess judgment, to any action or actions, in any of the courts
aforesaid, commenced against him, her or them, any law,
statute or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
MAY, 1717—CHAPTER 8.
AN ACT for punishment of such as shall counterfeit the Lord Proprietary's
greater or lesser seal at arms within this province.
Merged in 1809, ch. 138.
CHAPTER 13.
A SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the act relating to Servants and Slaves.
See 1715, ch. 44, for various supplements. |
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Preamble. |
WHEREAS, it may be of very dangerous consequence to
admit and allow as evidences in law, in any of the coarts of
record, or before any magistrate within this province, any negro
or mulatto slave, or free negro, or mulatto born of a white
woman, during their servitude appointed by law, or any Indian
slave, or free Indian native of this or the neighbouring pro-
vinces ; |
No negro,
&c. to be
admitted as
evidence,
&c. |
SEC. 2. Be it therefore enacted, by the right honourable, the
Lord Proprietary, by and with the advice and consent of his
Lordship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of
Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and
after the end of this present session of assembly, no negro or
mulatto slave, free negro, or mulatto born of a white woman,
during his time of servitude by law, or any Indian slave, or
free Indian natives, of this or the neighbouring provinces, be
admitted and received as good and valid evidence in law, in |
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