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50 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1719.
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of execution, and by such court applied towards the maintain-
ing a public school in the county where such offence is com-
mitted. |
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Proviso. |
SEC. 4. Provided always, That nothing in this act shall be
construed to lessen the authorities vested by law in the several
courts, or in any of the magistrates, before the making of this act.
CHAPTER 12. |
*1715, ch.
15, |
A SUPPLEMENTARY act to the act * for the appointment of Constables, and
what relates to their office, and ascertaining what persons are taxables.
All of this law is now inoperative, except the 4th section, as the poll lax
is abolished by the Bill of Rights. |
Constable
to have his
fee. |
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid,
That all warrants issued by any justice of peace for the reco-
very of small debts, shall be directed to some constable of a
hundred, appointed by the court, unless (at the request of such
suitor,) it be directed to some friend who will serve it gratis,
such suitor nevertheless being hereby made liable to pay the
constable of the hundred where such warrant is served his
just fee.
CHAPTER 14.
AN ACT for the application of such Intestate's Estates as leave no legal repre-
sentatives, and for enforcing proceedings against temerary administrators. |
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Preamble. |
WHEREAS it frequently happens that persons who are pos-
sessed of considerable personal estates, die intestate, leaving no
known relations or representatives, legally entitled to the residue
thereof, in which cases, it is observed some creditor or pretended
creditor of such deceased most commonly obtains the adminis-
tration of his goods and chattels, and thereby becomes legally
possessed thereof, by virtue whereof he not only satisfies him-
self, but all other creditors their just claims, but likewise retains
in his hands the total residue of such estate, and converts the
same to his own 'use, on pretence of securing himself against
such latent debts as may thereafter appear, whereby such
administrator has the sole benefit of such goods and chattels as
he had no other pretence of right to, save for the satisfying him-
self a debt, and perhaps but a small one, out of the deceased's
estates; for the more just and better application of which resi-
dues, for the future, |
How the
residue of
intestates'
estates
shall be
disposed of, |
SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the right honourable the Lord Pro-
prietor, by and with the advice and consent of his lordship's Gov-
ernor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
authority of the same. That every such administrator as afore-
mentioned shall be obliged to pay and satisfy the balance of
such estates to one of the public treasurers of this province, for
the time being, in the same manner as such administrator |
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