86 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1748.
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confessed in the provincial and county courts of this province,
but also out of courts, before a single magistrate, and executions
have issued thereon, to the great damage of many people, who,
in case capias had issued, and they had time to plead to such
bonds, many good reasons might have been pleaded against the
same; for prevention of which evils for the future, it is humbly
prayed that it may be enacted, |
No judg-
ment to be
confessed,
&c. |
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, by the right honorable 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 authority of the same, That from and after the end of this
session of assembly, it shall not be lawful for any attorney
practising now, or who shall hereafter practise the law in any
court of record within this province, or any other person what-
ever, to confess a judgment either in court, or before one or
more justices of such court or courts out of court, for any sum
or sums of money or tobacco, or other matter, by virtue of any
power or powers of attorney, either separate or contained in any
such bonds, commonly called judgment bonds, which shall be
taken or executed after the end of this session of assembly;
nor shall it be lawful for the justices of any court of record
within this province to give judgment upon any such bonds,
by virtue of any such power or powers.
SEC. 3, 4, 5. Relate to bonds taken for bills of credit issued by the state,
and are therefore now inapplicable to its fiscal practice.
SEC. 6, 7, 8, 9. Are merged in 1825, ch. 167, to prevent the unneces-
sary accumulation of costs in civil suits.
MAY, 1748—CHAPTER 7.
AN ACT to enable the several and respective County Clerks within this
province to remove some of the County Records and Papers from the
public offices. |
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Preamble. |
WHEREAS at a session of Assembly, begun and held at the
city of Annapolis the sixteenth day of May, anno domini seven-
teen hundred forty and seven, an act was made, entitled 'An act
to remedy some proceedings in the court of Charles county, and
to prevent the removal of the records from the public offices;'
wherein among other things, it is enacted, 'that for the future
no clerk or register within this province, (except parish regis-
ters,) shall at any time hereafter take, remove, or carry out of
their respective public offices, or cause or suffer any person or
persons to take, remove, or carry out of their respective public
offices, any books, papers or other records, to their own houses,
or to any other place, upon any pretence whatsoever, and the
same to keep, or cause or suffer to be kept, out of their respec-
tive public offices, at any time between the hours of eleven at
night and six in the morning, under penalty of ten pounds cur- |
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