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collect the said fines by execution or otherwise, and make a
return to the magistrate or magistrates to be by them paid over
to the levy courts of their respective counties.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the aforesaid
act of assembly, passed at September session, 1723, chapter 16,
as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the
same are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 102.

Repeal.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act relating to Insolvent Debtors
in the City and County of Baltimore.

*1816, ch.
221.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any applicant for the benefit of the insolvent laws of this
state, who have been or may hereafter be reported against by
the commissioners of insolvent debtors for the city and county
of Baltimore, on the ground of his not having acted, in the
opinion of said commissioners, fairly and bona fide, be, and he
is hereby authorized to prosecute at any time, a second petition
for the benefit of said laws, before the said commissioners, upon
all the other terms and conditions of said laws, notwithstanding

Second
petition.

the unfavourable report made upon his first petition : Provided,
that before the said commissioners shall act upon the said
second petition, they be satisfied that the applicant did not, at
his first application, retain any property or estate whatsoever
then belonging to him, with an intention to defraud his credi-
tors, and that he then acted fairly and bona fide; And provided
also, that the said commissioners shall not report favourably upon
any application under this law, unless they be satisfied that, on
application, the applicant does not fraudulently retain any pro-
perty or estate whatsoever then belonging to him, and that he
then acts fairly and bona fide.

Provisos.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of said
commissioners to require of every applicant under this law, to
answer again, at the usual time, on oath or affirmation, all the
interrogatories filed against him on his previous application, as
well as any others that a creditor or creditors may file against
him on his application under this law.

CHAPTER 104.

Interroga-
tories.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to provide for the Recording
of certain Deeds and other papers.

* 1816, ch,
119.

WHEREAS it has been found that the period limited by law
for the recording deeds, or other instruments of writing, has
expired in the interval between the death of a clerk of the county
and the qualification of a successor, for remedy whereof,

Preamble.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
whenever it may be necessary to record any deed, conveyance,

Case of
vacancy.