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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1828.

CHAPTER 63.

*Ch, 110.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of
sundry Insolvent Debtors, passed at November session, eighteen hun-
dred and five.*

Debtor ob-
taining final
discharge
under origi-
nal act, may
be dis-
charged &c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any insolvent debtor, who has obtained, or may obtain,
a personal or final discharge under the original act, and supple-
ments thereto, to which this is a further supplement, shall be
entitled to be discharged from custody upon any attachment, or
other process, which has been or may be issued against such
debtor to enforce the execution of any order for the payment of
money, which may be passed by the court of chancery, any
county court sitting as a court of equity, or orphans court,
against such debtor, for any debt or claim contracted, or liabi-
lity incurred, for such money, before the said discharge of such
debtor ; and it shall be the duty of the chancellor, of the county
court, or orphans court, out of which such process may issue,
or any judge thereof in the recess of the said court, upon motion,

Provisos.

to discharge said debtor from custody as aforesaid ; Provided,
that before any such debtor shall be entitled to his discharge as
aforesaid, he shall produce to the chancellor, county court, or
judge thereof, or orphans court, as the case may be, a copy of
said discharge, certified by the clerk of the court in which the
said discharge may be lodged or recorded, and under the seal
thereof; And provided also, that this act shall not extend to
any attachment or process which may issue to compel the pay-
ment of any fine, amerciament or penalty, which may be
imposed by said chancellor, county court, or orphans court.

CHAPTER 65.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT concerning Crimes and Punish-
ments, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and eighteen,
chapter seventy-two.
Repealed by 1837, ch. 320.

CHAPTER 74.

AN ACT to abolish the office of Trustee of the State, and to authorize the
Treasurer of the Western Shore to employ a Clerk.

Office
abolished.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act the office of trustee
for the state be and the same is hereby abolished ; and that so
much of the act of assembly passed at November session,
seventeen hundred and ninety, chapter forty-one, which pro-
vides for the payment of a salary for any duties to be performed
by the said trustee, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Duties to
devolve on
treasurer.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the duties which have been
hitherto performed by the trustee of the state, shall devolve
upon, and be performed by, the treasurer of the western shore.