820

LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1821.

Shall re-
ceive such
certificate
in payment.

the respective certificates of money deposited in their respective
banks in payment of debts due to the said banks, whether
before or after judgment, and the sheriffs of the several counties
of this state, shall be, and they are hereby required to receive
such certificates in payment of all executions or judgments
obtained by such banks.

CHAPTER 200.

*1704, ch.
69.
Restricting
former acts.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act against excessive Usury.
Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
nothing iu the original act to which this is a supplement,
shall be construed or extend to destroy the right to sue and
recover by any legal or equitable assignee, indorsee, or holder
of any bond, bill obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note,

Proviso.

or other negotiable instrument, Provided always, that such
assignee, indorsee, holder or cestuique use shall have received
such bond, bill obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note,
or other negotiable instrument for a boua fide and legal consi-
deration, without notice of any usury in the creation or subse-
quent assignment or negotiation thereof, any law, usage or

Further
proviso.

custom, to the contrary notwithstanding ; And provided also,
that the provisions herein contained shall not extend to any
bond, bill obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note, or
other negotiable instrument, made or created before the passage
of this act.

CHAPTER 202.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Sheriffs,
and for other purposes, passed at December session eighteen hundred
and thirteen, chapter one hundred and two.
See notes to the original act, ante page 616; and 1823, ch. 180, ante
page 798.

Death of
sheriff, &c.
relume to
be made.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in case any sheriff, coroner or elisor, within this state,
hath made or shall make sale of any goods and chattels, lands
or tenements in virtue of a writ or writs of fieri facias or
venditioni exponas to him directed and delivered for that pur-
pose, and hath died or shall die, without having made and
entered on said writ or writs of fieri facias or venditioni exponas,
the necessary and legal return, stating the proceedings which
have been thereon had ; it shall and may be lawful for the
court to which the said writ or writs may or shall have been
returnable, on the application of the purchaser or purchasers,
his, her or their legal representatives, and on his, her or their
producing to the court satisfactory proof, that the sale was
legally and fairly made by the said sheriff, coroner or elisor, to
cause said proof to be entered of record, and such proof when