LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1813.

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By December, 1816, ch. 129, negro slaves are excepted.
By 1816, ch. 129, in case of the sale of negro slaves, lands and tene-
ments, notice thereof to be given by advertisement set up at least twenty
clays before the day of sale at the court-house door of the county in which
the negro slaves, &c. may be, and also published for the same period of
time, previous to the day of sale, in some newspaper, provided there be
any printed in the county.
See 1833, ch. 92, as to notice required on sales of stock or debts of cor-
porations, taken in execution.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted. That in case any sheriff or coro-
ner shall have lawfully arrested or taken in execution any
person or persons in virtue of any writ of attachment, of capias
ad respondendum, or of capias ad satisfaciendum, and such
sheriff or coroner shall die before the return day of any such
writ, it shall and may be lawful for the sheriff for the time
being, or some other of the coroners, (as the case may be,) of
the county, on the application of the plaintiff in any such writ,
or his counsel, and on producing to such sheriff or coroner as
aforesaid the writ under which the person or persons shall have
been arrested or taken in execution as aforesaid, and such she-
riff or coroner shall be authorized, and he is hereby required,
again to arrest or take in execution, under and in virtue of any
such writ, the person or persons who may have been arrested or
taken in execution as aforesaid, in the same manner as if such
person or persons had not been before arrested or taken in exe-
cution under any such writ.

CHAPTER 104.

Sheriffs
having law-
fully arrest-
ed under
writs of
attachment,
&c. and
dying be-
fore return
day, per-
sons taken
in execu-
tion to be
again
arrested on
application
of plaintiff.

A further additional SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the Act,* entitled, an Act for
Quieting Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances and securing the Estates
of Purchasers.
See notes to the original Law, ante page 35.

* 1715, ch.
47.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That when the person or persons making any deed or convey-
ance for conveying any lands, tenements or hereditaments, in
this state, or declaring or limiting any use in or for any such
lands, tenements or hereditaments, shall be at the time of the
execution of such deed or conveyance oiit of this state, so that
the same cannot be acknowledged in the manner deeds or con-
veyances are directed to be acknowledged within this state,
then and in every such case the deed or conveyance may be
acknowledged in the manner heretofore prescribed by law, or
by letter of attorney proved as herein after directed.

Persons out
of the state
making
deeds — how
to be
acknow-
ledged.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the letter of attorney, in
virtue of which any such deed or conveyance shall be acknow-
ledged, shall be proved by the oath or affirmation, (as the same
may be,) of the subscribing witnesses to the same, or any of
them, in the county court of the county where the land or

Letters of
attorney-
how to be
proved.