LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1723. 63
be occasioned by the delay of execution on the said judgment,
unless the court of chancery shall decree to the contrary, and
shall in all things obey such order and decree as the chancery
court shall make in the premises, then the above obligation to
be void and of none effect, else to be in full force and virtue.'
And that such bond so given shall be a sufficient supersedeas
and stop to any further proceedings in that case, until the per-
son against whom such chancery relief is proposed shall obtain
a certificate from the chancellor, or his register, of the disallow-
ance of an injunction in such case, or that such injunction has
not been sued out of the chancery office within two months
after such bond given, or if sued out, that the same is dis-
solved.
See the acts conferring equity jurisdiction on the county courts, 1763, ch.
23, sec. 5, 1791, ch. 78 ; 1792, ch. 63; 1814, ch. 91; 1815, ch. 163, and
the supplements thereto. |
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SEC. 6. Provided always, and be it enacted, by the authority
aforesaid, That the commissioners and evidences, for their ser-
vice and attendance, shall have and be entitled to the same
allowances as justices and evidences in the county courts are,
and that the same shall be levied in the same manner as
officers' fees are.
CHAPTER 15.
An ACT to prevent the Tumultuous Meetings and other irregularities of
Negroes and other slaves.
Supplementary, &c. acts are 1751, ch. 14, and 1753, ch. 26; 1806, ch.
81 ; 1821, ch. 240. |
Proviso. |
WHEREAS, this present session of assembly have had under
their consideration the evil consequences that do and may attend
the suffering of negro and other slaves to meet in great numbers
on Sabbath and other holidays, and keeping of horses, cattle, or
hogs of their own; |
Preamble. |
SEC. 3. Be it enacted by the right honourable the Lord Pro-
prietor, by and with the advice and consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and
the authority of the same., That the justices of the several and
respective county courts within this province, be, and they are
hereby, empowered and required, immediately after the publi-
cation of this act, and so yearly in November court, to appoint
the constable of every hundred where the said justices, at their
discretion, shall think proper and expedient, to suppress the
assembling and tumultuous meeting of negroes and other
slaves; and that every constable so to be appointed, shall be
obliged to repair once a month to all suspected places within
his hundred, and if at any such place, he shall find any negroes
or other slaves besides the negroes or other slaves belonging to |
Constables
to be ap-
pointed, &c. |
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