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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1822.

CHAPTER 134.
A further and additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act con-
cerning Crimes and Punishments.

Repeal.

SEO. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That an act, entitled, a further and additional supplement to the
act, entitled, an act concerning crimes and punishments, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, chapter
one hundred and ninety-three, be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed.

CHAPTER 113.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act incorporating into- one the
several Acts relating to Constables' Fees.
Other acts are, 1820, ch. 164; 1821, ch. 162.

Levy

directed.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the levy courts of this state be, and they are hereby authorized
and required to levy on the assessable property of their respec-
tive counties the amount of fees that the constables of the seve-
ral counties are entitled to receive by the act to which this is a
supplement, for executing criminal business, any law to the

Proviso.

contrary notwithstanding ; Provided, that nothing in this act
shall be so construed as to exempt any criminals from paying
the cost of their arrest, if they shall be of sufficient ability to
pay said cost themselves.

CHAPTER 162.
AN ACT concerning Joint Tenancy.
Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
no deed, devise or other instrument of writing which may here-
after be made or executed, shall be construed to create an estate
in joint tenancy, unless in such deed, devise, or other instru-
ment of writing, it is expressly provided that the property con-
veyed by such deed, devise, or other instrument of writing, is
to be held in joint tenancy.

CHAPTER 169.

* 1799, ch.
75.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act for the more effectual pre-
venting of Forgery, and to make it felony to steal Bonds, Notes, or other
Securities for the payment of money.

Forgery of
orders, &c.
made
felony.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any person shall falsely make, alter, forge or counter-
feit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged 01
counterfeited, or willingly act or assist in the falsely making
altering, forging, or counterfeiting, or shall utter, publish, oi
pass, knowing to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counter
felted, any warrant, or order for payment of money, or deliver;
of goods, or other valuable articles, whether the said warrant o