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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1802.

CHAPTER 109.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Writs of Capias

*Chap. 42.

ad Satisfaciendum, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and
eighty-nine.*
See note to the original law, ante page 255.

In certain
cases plain-
tiff may
proceed
against
defendant

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in case any writ of capias ad satisfaciendum has been or shall
be issued out of the court of chancery, on which there hath
been or shall be an arrest of the defendant or defendants, if the
plaintiff or plaintiffs, with the consent of the defendant or de-
fendants, have elected, or shall elect, not to call the said execu-
tion during the term to which it was or may be returnable, it
shall be lawful for such plaintiff or plaintiffs to proceed against
every such defendant or defendants, and his, her or their heirs,
devisees, executors or administrators, by a new execution, or
such other process as the nature of the case may require, for
such sum of money or tobacco as may remain unsatisfied on
his, her or their judgment or decree, in the same manner that
he, she or they, might have done if such defendant or defen-
dants had not been arrested on the former writ of execution.
See 1785, ch. 72, sec. 25, ante page 222.

CHAPTER 111.

AN ACT to incorporate certain persons in every Christian Church or
Congregation in this Slate.
Supplementary and other acts, November, 1809, ch. 139; 1814, ch. 58;
and 1815, ch. 222.
See 1798, ch. 24, ante page 359.

Preamble.

WHEREAS petitions from many religious societies have annu-
ally been preferred to this legislature, and many are now before
them, praying acts of incorporation, and it is reasonable and
proper that all denominations of Christians within this state,
whose members conduct themselves in a peaceable and orderly
manner, should receive and enjoy equal rights and privileges,
without partiality, preference or distinction, in all things con-
cerning the temporalities and government of their churches,
congregations and societies : And whereas also it is necessary
to their welfare that they should be empowered to hold and
acquire certain portions of properly in a corporate or congrega-
tional capacity, and enter into various engagements of a civil or
temporal nature, which can only be done by assistance of the
general assembly, which assistance may nevertheless be right-
fully granted without disturbing private opinions, or affecting
the rights of judgment in matters of religion, or imposing an in-
voluntary burthen on any person whatsoever: And whereas
it is most convenient to make provisions for their respective
situations by a general law, which shall reach their several