68 LAWS OF MARYLAND—1723-24.
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tion, wherein no essoin, protection or wager of law shall be
allowed.
By 1834, ch. 244, this provision is re-enacted, and the fine is altered and
all laws inconsistent therewith, repealed.
SEC. 12. Annulled by the laws regulating the mode of printing and
publishing the laws of this state. |
Limitation
of prosecu-
tions, &c. |
SEC. 13. Provided always, and be it enacted, That all in-
formations for blasphemy and Sabbath breaking, shall be made
within one month after the fact; and that all prosecutions and
informations for swearing, cursing, drunkenness and omis-
sion to punish same, shall be made within ten days after the
fact; and that all prosecutions for not reading this act, and for
selling liquors, and suffering drunkenness and gaming on the
Sabbath day, shall be commenced within six months after such
omission, and not after.
SEC. 14. Repeals a prior law, not in Kilty's compilation.
SEC. 15. Excepts from the operation of the repeal, prosecutions then
pending.
CHAPTER 17.
AN ACT directing the manner of recovery of fines for not appearing at the
clearing of the highways.
This law has lost its general character, by the numerous local laws
regulating the repairs of the public roads.
OCTOBER, 1724—CHAPTER 14. |
* 1704, ch.
21. |
A SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the act, entitled, *an Act for the marking of
highways, and making the heads of rivers, creeks, branches and swamps,
passable for horse and foot.
See preceding note.
CHAPTER 21. |
* 1723, ch.
24. |
AN ACT reviving and continuing the *Act for Limitation of Officers' Fees,
and for supplying some defects therein, and for amendment thereof in
some particulars, and restraining some ill practices of sheriffs.
SEC. 1. Expired by its own limitation. |
No fee
allowed,
&c. |
SEC. 2. And, for that several complaints have been made to
this assembly, that several sheriffs, merely to increase fees to
themselves, have executed several persons for public and county
levies and officers' fees, and charged execution fees thereon,
when they might have received their dues without such execu-
tion, although they have and are allowed a large commission
for collecting the same; and for that the power of execution
ought not to be used in oppression of the people, but only to
enable the sheriff to get in and collect the public dues and
officers' fees with the greater facility; and for that persons
whose goods are taken in execution for officers' fees, are not ex-
pressly provided for by the act to restrain the ill practice used |
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