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or other records, to their own houses, or to any other place,
upon any pretence whatsoever, and the same so keep, or cause
or suffer to be kept out of their respective public offices, at any
time between the hours of eleven at night and six in the morn-
ing, under penalty of ten pounds current money for every
offence, one moiety thereof to the informer, or to him or her
that shall sue for the same, the other moiety to be applied to
the use of the school of the county wherein the offence shall
be committed, to be recovered in any court of record in this
province, by action of debt, bill of indictment, plaint or infor-
mation, wherein no essoin, protection or wager of law, or more
than one imparlance, shall be allowed.
The act of 1748, ch. 7, enables the county clerks to remove the last
recording book for judgments, with the four last courts dockets and
papers, and the same to keep at their own houses, or other convenient
places, for such time as to them shall seem necessary, without incurring
the penalties of this present act. |
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SEC. 11. Provided always, That all actions or prosecutions
in virtue of this act shall be commenced within six months
next after the offence shall be committed.
CHAPTER 13.
An ACT, continuing an act, entitled. An Act to prevent the injuring of
Harbours within this province, and for repealing the act therein men-
tioned. |
Proviso. |
Be it enacted, by the right honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the advice and consent of his lordship's Governor,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the autho-
rity of the same. That the above-mentioned act, entitled, An
act to prevent the injuring of harbours within this province, and
for repealing the act therein mentioned, made at a session of
assembly, begun and held at the city of Annapolis, the twen-
tieth day of March, anno domini one thousand seven hundred
and thirty-five, be and is hereby continued, and shall remain
and be in full force forever.
A supplement to the original act, 1774, ch. 18.
CHAPTER 23.
AH ACT to prevent evils arising from the entering up judgments upon
Bonds, commonly called Judgment Bonds, to direct the manner of
issuing executions on Loan Office Bonds, and to regulate certain fees
therein mentioned. |
An act
continued. |
WHEREAS, it has been the practice to take bonds, with power
contained in the condition of such bonds upon non-payment, to
any attorneys practising in any court of record within the
dominion of Great Britain, to confess judgment, and thereupon
without any previous process, judgments have not only been |
Preamble. |
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