LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1817.

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sembly held in November seventeen hundred and eighty-five,
taken up any such land, by either a common warrant, special
warrant, or warrant of resurvey, the same shall be deemed and
taken to be as good and available in law as if this act had at
that time been in force, any law to the contrary notwithstand-

Land here-
tofore taken
up deemed
valid.

ing; Provided always, that nothing in this law contained
shall be construed to affect the right or interest which any per-
son or persons may have heretofore acquired as informers, ot
otherwise, according to the laws of this state, relating to British
confiscated property.

CHAPTER 138.

Proviso.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act directing the
manner of Suing out Attachments in this Province, and limiting the
extent of them.
See notes to the original act, ante page 21 .

*1715, ch,
40.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any person whatsoever, not being a citizen of this
state, and not residing therein, shall or may be indebted unto a
citizen of this state, or of any other of the United States, in a
sum of money not exceeding fifty dollars, or if a citizen of this
state being indebted to another citizen thereof in a sum of
money not exceeding fifty dollars, shall actually run away, ab-
scond, or fly from justice, or secretly remove him or herself
from his or her place of abode, with intent to evade the pay-
ment of his or her just debts, such creditor may in either case
have the like remedy by attachment, and by the like process
and proceedings, as a creditor may now have in such cases
when the debt doth exceed the sum of money above mentioned.

Debts
under fifty
dollars due
from non-
residents,
&c. may be
recovered,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if such debtor or debtors shall
be arrested on the capias ad respondendum issuing with such
attachment from any county court in this state, or if the said
debtor shall appear to the same within the time limited in other
cases of attachment, the court in which such proceedings may
be had shall have and exercise full and ample jurisdiction in
such suit, in the same manner, and by the like process and
proceedings, as if the said debt exceeded the said sum of fifty
dollars current money.

CHAPTER 139.

AN ACT to provide for the conveyance and return of Process issued from
the Courts of one County to the officers of another.

Courts to
exercise
jurisdiction
in certain
cases.

WHEREAS, the trial of causes, civil and criminal, is often
delayed by the irregular manner in which process is conveyed
from the courts of one county to the officers of another county,
and by the want of convenient proof of the delivery of such
process to the officers to whom the same is directed, as well as

Preamble.