LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1812.

coins, as have been or shall be severally regulated and estab-
lished by congress, shall be adjudged and taken and recognized
as the current money of this state.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the money of account of this
state, shall be expressed in the same manner as the money of
account of the United States, and that all accounts in the public
offices, and all proceedings in the courts of this state, shall be
kept and had in conformity to this regulation.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That all judgments and decrees in
suits and actions hereafter to be rendered and passed in any
court of law or equity in this state, and all penalties, fines and
forfeitures, hereafter to be imposed, shall be rendered, giten,
made or imposed in the money hereby made current; but any
judgment, decree, penalty, fine or forfeiture, rendered, given,
made or imposed in the manner they heretofore have been, shall
not vitiate or render erroneous any such judgment, decree,
penalty, fine or forfeiture.

Money of
accounts of
the state
to be ex-
pressed in
same man-
ner as those
of the U.
States.

Judgments
and decrees

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in all public bonds directed
to be given to the state, hereafter fo be taken and executed in
virtue of any law of this state, the value of the penalty thereof
shall be expressed in the money hereby made current in cases
where the penalty prescribed by law may be expressed in a

Public
bonds.

different money than that hereby made current; Provided, that
any omission thereof shall not operate so as to discharge the
obligor or obligors mentioned in such bond, or to make the
same void or of no force or effect.

Proviso.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall commence and
be in force from and after the first day of June next.

When this
act to take
effect.

CHAPTER 145.
A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to provide
for the organization and regulation of the Courts of Common Law in
this state, and for the administration of justice therein.

* 1805, ch.
65.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases of scire facias against heirs and terre-tenants,
which have been issued, or which shall or may be issued out of
any county court of this state, when any one or more of the
heirs or terre tenants named and included in such writ of scire
facias, or to whom the same was intended to be made known,
shall be resident in any other county than that in which the
judgment upon which such scire facias shall have been issued,
or may be issued, was obtained, it shall and may be lawful for
the clerk of the county court who shall have issued or may
issue the said scire facias, to issue and direct to the sheriff of each
and every other county wherein any of the said heirs or terra-
tenants shall or may reside, a duplicate of the said writ of scire
facias, returnable to the county court in which the said judg-

Scire facias
against
heirs resi-
dent in any
county than
that in
which judg-
ment issued
how to be
served, &c.