LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1825

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any criminal to confinement in the penitentiary under the origi-
nal act to which this is a further and an additional supplement,
for any term or time less than two years, and that the several
courts of law of this state may and shall sentence any criminal
to confinement in the penitentiary for the term or time of two
years, who are now liable to be sentenced for any term or time
less than two years.
SEC. 2, 3, 4, 5. Are repealed by 1826, ch. 229, sec. 8.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That all such parts of the act, to
which this is a further and an additional supplement, which are
repugnant to or inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be,
and the same are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 103.

AN ACT to enable purchasers to obtain possession of Lands and Premises
sold by Sheriffs, Coroners and Elisors, at public auction.
See 1831, ch. 290, sec. 5.

Acts incon-
sistent
herewith
repealed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That whenever any lands or tenements shall be sold by any
sheriff, coroner or elisor, by virtue of any process of execution,
from the court of appeals, court of chancery, or any county
court ; and the debtor or debtors named in the said process, or
any other person or persons holding under such debtor or
debtors by title subsequent to the date of the judgment or de-
cree, shall be in the actual possession of the lands or tenements
so sold, and shall fail or refuse to deliver possession of the same
to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, it shall and may be law-
ful for the court to which the said process shall be returnable,
on the application of the purchaser or purchasers, of the said
lands or tenements, his, her, or their agent or attorney, and on
no good cause having been shewn to the contrary by the said
debtor or debtors, his, her, or their agent or attorney, or other
person concerned, within the first four days of the term next
succeeding that to which said process was returnable, to issue
a writ in the nature of a writ of habere facias possessionem,
reciting therein the proceedings which may have been had on
said process, thereby commanding the said sheriff, coroner or
elisor, as the case may be, to deliver possession of the said
lands or tenements, to the purchaser or purchasers thereof.

Case stated
and pro-
ceedings
directed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said sheriff, coroner or
elisor, shall have all the powers in the execution of said writ,
that he may have in the execution of any writ of habere facias
possessionem, to him directed.

CHAPTER 113.
AN ACT to authorize Limited Partnerships within this State.
Repealed by 1836, ch, 97, sec. 23.

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