LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1713-15. 7
SEC. 8. Be it enacted, by the authority, advice and consent
aforesaid. That if any person or persons whatsoever shall here-
after presume to take and break open the seal or seals of any
letter or letters whatsoever, not being unto him or them direc-
ted, or not having especial license from the persons to whom
the same are directed, their executors or administrators, so to
do, shall, upon due conviction thereof, either in the provincial
or county courts of this province, suffer imprisonment of his,
her or their bodies, for and during the space of six days, with-
out bail or main prise, and forfeit the sum of five pounds ster-
ling, the one moiety to her majesty, her heirs and successors,
for the support of government, the other moiety to him or them
that shall inform, or sue for the same, to be recovered in any
court of record within this province, by action of debt, bill,
plaint or information, wherein no essoin, protection or wager of
law to be allowed. |
Persons
breaking
open
private let-
ters to be
imprisoned,
&c. |
SEC. 9. And, In case any person or persons shall break open
any letter or letters directed to his excellency, her majesty's
governor, or any of her majesty's council of this province, for
the time being, or other public letter superscribed or directed for
her majesty's service, and signed by any person having autho-
rity so to do, and shall be thereof legally convict, he, she, or
they, so offending, shall suffer two months imprisonment, with-
out bail or mainprise, and forfeit to our sovereign lady the
queen, her heirs and successors, the sum of twenty pounds
sterling, to be recovered and divided as aforesaid.
CHAPTER 4.
AN ACT for regulating Writs of error, and granting Appeals from and to the
courts of common law within this province.
Repealed with all of its supplements by 1826, ch. 200.
CHAPTER 10.
An ACT empowering the justices of the several county courts within this
province to regulate the bounds of the several parishes within their
respective counties, when disputable, and for ascertaining the time and
manner when and how the forty pounds of tobacco per poll shall become
due and payable to the minister or incumbent of each parish.
The convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, by 1798, ch. 24,
sec. 33, is empowered 'to divide or unite parishes, to alter the bounds, and
to constitute new ones.' The forty pounds of tobacco per poll, payable to
the ministers is abolished by the 33d article of the Bill of Rights.
1715.—CHAPTER 10.
An ACT relating to the standard of English weights and measures.
Superseded by 1825, ch. 206. |
Penalty for
breaking
open pub-
lic letters. |
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