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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1817.

county court of the county where the offence shall be commit-
ted, one-half to the informer, and the other half to the u<se of
the state.
This act, so far as it imposes a tar, &c. on the Bank of the United States,
or the branches thereof, was declared by the Supreme Court of the United
States, at February term 1819, in the case of James W. M'Culloh against
the state of Maryland, and John James, who as well, &c. to be contrary
to the constitution of the United States, and void. Bee Mandate of the
Supreme Court of the United Slates entered in Lib. TH, No. 18, fol. 246,
&c. one of the judgment records of the court of appeals for the western
shore. See also 4 Wheaton, 316.

CHAPTER 178.

*1708, ch.
101.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT*, entitled, an Act for amending and
and reducing into System the Laws and Regulations concerning Last
Will and Testaments, the duties of Executors, Administrators and
Guardians, and rights of Orphans and other Representatives of deceased
persons.
See notes to the original act, ante page 370.

Powers
vested in
orphans
court.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the orphans courts of the several counties of this state, are
hereby authorized and empowered, in all cases where letters
testamentary or of administration have been or hereafter may be
revoked, and new letters granted, by any of the said courts, to
enforce, by attachment, suquestration of property and imprison-
ment, the delivery or payment over of all unadministered assets
by the person whose letters as aforesaid have been or may be
revoked, to the person to whom such new letters have been or
may be granted.

CHAPTER 183.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of
sundry Insolvent Debtors, passed November session eighteen hundred

*Ch. 110.

and five.*
See notes to the original act, ante page 530.

Debtors
may apply
to judges of
orphans
court.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any imprisoned debtor may hereafter, immediately upon
his or her confinement, make application, by petition, in writing,
to any judge of the orphans court of the county in which he or
she shall be so imprisoned, for discharge from said confinement,
and the said judge shall have, and he is hereby invested with,
the same power as is exercised by a judge of the county court,
to grant such discharge, upon the petitioner giving bond, with
security, and in a penalty to be approved and preserved by said
judge, for his or her appearance before the judges of the county
court of said county, at a time to be appointed by said judge,
for a hearing before said court, on said petition, according to the
provisons of the said original act.