LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1825,

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CHAPTER 165.

AN ACT to establish the times of paying the salaries of Civil Officers and
the pensions of Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers and of their Widows.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the last day of June next, the salaries of
the several civil officers of the government of this state, shall be
paid quarter-yearly on the first days of July, October, January
and April.

Quarterly
payments to
civil officers'

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the pensions of revolutiona-
ry officers and soldiers and of their widows, shall be paid half-
yearly, on the first days of October and April.

Half-yearly
to revolu-
tionary
soldiers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That on the first payment of
such salaries or pensions all sums due, or fractional parts of
any preceding quarter or half year, shall be paid as hereto
before provided.

CHAPTER 166,

AN Act to create a Board of Public Works.
Repealed by 1828, eh. 64.

Fractional
part.

CHAPTER 167.

AN ACT to prevent the unnecessary accumulation' of Costs in Civil Suits.
Supplements, 1829, ch. 166, 186; 1830, ch. 80; 1837, ch. 211.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of May next, it shall not be
lawful to institute more than one suit on a joint and several
bond, penal or single bill, where the persons executing the
same are alive, and reside in the same county; and that if
more than one suit be instituted on any such bond, penal or
single bill, judgment of non pross. shall be entered against the
plaintiff or plaintiffs on such suits.

More than
one suit on
one instru-
ment prohi-
bited—
penalty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if either of the said obligors
shall be dead, then and in that case, it shall be the duty of such
clerk to docket one action against the surviving obligor of
obligors, and if requested so to do by the plaintiff or plaintiffs,
or by his, her or their attorney, it shall be the duty of such
clerk, to docket also an action against the executors or admi-
nistrators of such deceased obligor, and to issue a summons
against the executors of administrators of such obligor, and the
same proceedings shall be had and the same judgment entered
thereon, as if separate actions had been brought against each
and every obligor, in such joint and several bond, penal of
single bill.

Case of one
obligor
being dead.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if either of the said obligors
against whom a joint action shall have been brought, shall die,
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An obligor

dying pen-

ding a suit.