94 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1752.
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Proviso. |
SEC. 12. Provided always, That where any money shall be
paid by virtue of any act or acts of this province for any slave
or slaves who shall die in gaol after sentence, or shall be exe-
cuted, It is hereby declared and enacted, That such payment
shall be made for such slave or slaves who were actual inhabi-
tants within this province at the lime such fact committed, and
not otherwise.
Enacted into a permanent law by 1798, ch, 71.
JUNE, 1753— CHAPTER 3. |
* 1716, ch.
39. |
AN additional and SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the Act, entitled, *An act
for the better administration of justice in testamentary affairs, granting
administrations, recovery of legacies, securing filial portions, and distri-
bution of intestates' estates.
This act is merged in 1798, ch. 101, and the several supplements thereto.
CHAPTER 7. |
*1715, ch.
15. |
A SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the act, entitled, *An act for the appointment
of constables, and what relates to their office, and ascertaining what per-
sons are taxables. |
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Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the above recited act it is amongst other things
enacted, 'that the justices of peace in every respective county
of this province, at the first county court held after Michaelmas,
shall appoint constables in each hundred of their several and
respective counties ; and the said constables so appointed, shall,
before they enter into that office, take the several oaths appointed
to be taken by all officers by the acts of assembly of this pro-
vince, and the oath of a constable :' And whereas it often hap-
pens, that the persons so appointed as aforesaid delay taking the
oaths aforesaid, by which means the hundred for which such
person is appointed remains a considerable time without a
constable; |
Clerk to
certify ap-
pointments,
&c. |
SEC. 2. Be if therefore enacted, by the right honourable the
Lord Proprietary, by and with the advice and consent of his
lordship's President, and the Upper and Lower houses of Assem-
bly, and the authority of the same. That from and after the end of
this session of assembly, the clerk of every county court respec-
tively, after the appointment of every constable in such county,
shall signify such appointment under his hand, and deliver the
same to the sheriff of the said county within five days after every
such appointment, under the penally of twenty shillings, to be
recovered before a single magistrate as in case of small debts, to
and for the use of the county where such neglect of notice shall
be made ', and the sheriff shall, within ten days after such deli-
very as aforesaid, deliver the same to each respective person so
appointed as aforesaid, or leave the same at his usual place of
abode, under the penalty of twenty shillings current money, to
be recovered in manner aforesaid, to the use aforesaid; and |
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