LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1819.

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refuse immediately to proceed to execute the same, and when
executed to make return thereof to the court, chancellor or
judge, as the case may be, and take with him the person to
whom the said writ may be directed, together with the person
so confined or detained, or one of them, he shall upon convic-
tion thereof, forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, to be paid to
the person in whose behalf such writ of habeas corpus shall have
issued, and if the said person, or some one on his or her behalf,
shall not prosecute for the same within six months after such
neglect or refusal, then one-half of the said forfeiture shall go to
the state, and the other half to the person who may prosecute
for the same.

CHAPTER 144.

AN ACT relating to the Chancery Court, Court of Appeals, the County and
Orphans Courts, and for other purposes.
See note to 1785, ch. 72, ante page 208.

Penalty on
sheriff neg-
lecting or
refusing to
serve writ.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases in which the court of chancery, the county
and orphans court, are authorized to order an investment in the
funds, that they shall be and are hereby authorized to order and
direct that the same be loaned out on real or such other security
as they may approve, provided that the chancellor or judges of
the said courts shall deem the same most advantageous for the
interest of the parties.

In cases
where
courts are
authorized
to order an
investment
in the funds
they may
direct the
same to be
loaned out,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the provisions of the act of
eighteen hundred and sixteen, chapter one hundred and fifty-
four, respecting the sales of real estate of minors, be extended
to personal estate of such minors.

Provisions
of act of
1816 ex-
tended to
personal
estate.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the act of
eighteen hundred and seventeen, chapter one hundred and
thirty-nine, entitled, an act to provide for the conveyance and
return of process issued from the courts of one county to the
officers of another, be extended to the chancery court and the
court of appeals, and to the conveyance and return of process
issued therefrom.

Provisions
of act of
1817 ex-
tended to
chancery
court, &c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in all cases where the
chancellor, or county courts of this state exercising equity juris-
diction, shall decree or order or direct any sums of money to be
paid out of any funds, or the proceeds thereof, arising from any
proceeding or decree in the said courts, any person or persons
who shall deem themselves aggrieved, may within three months
after such decree or order, file a petition to the chancellor, or
judges of the county court, as the case may be, praying an
appeal from the decree or order of the said court to the court of
appeals, and the same shall be allowed, and thereupon a copy of
the proceedings, or such part thereof as may be necessary to set

In certain
cases per-
sons ag-
grieved
may pray
an appeal
to court of
appeals.