LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1829.

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CHAPTER 163,

AN ACT to appoint an Officer of the State of Maryland, to be called the
Steward to the Governor.
Repealed by 1838, ch. 20.

CHAPTER 158.
AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act relating to
Sheriffs, and for othef purposes.

*1813,ch.
102.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted^ by the General Assembly of Maryland^
That if any sheriff or coroner hath taken, or shall take, in exe-
cution, any goods or chattels, lands and tenements, under and
by virtue of any writ of execution, sued out of any court within
this state, and hath returned, or shall return, such writ to the
court whence it issued, alleging thereon that the goods or chat-
tels, lands or tenements, so taken in execution, remain in his
possession or custody, unsold for the want of buyers, or by
reason of any impediment : and the said sheriff or coroner shall
neglect or omit to make sale of said goods or chattels, lands or
tenements, within five years from the time when he laid the
original writ of execution on the same, then, in any such case,
the plaintiff or plaintiffs therein concerned, may, at his, her, or
their option, either renew the said execution, and direct it to the
said sheriff or coroner, or the plaintiff or plaintiffs may have
the same proceedings in such suit as are authorized and directed
by the laws of this state, in cases where a sheriff or coroner
removes out of the county, for and within which he acted,
without having effected the sale of goods or chattels, lands or
tenements, taken by him in execution.

Case of
failing to
sell goods
taken in
execution;
remedy.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in any case where the state
of Maryland is plaintiff, in which a sheriff or coroner may have
returned, or shall hereafter return, property, as taken under an
execution issued out of any court within this state, and in his
possession or custody, unsold for the want of buyers ; and the
said sheriff or coroner shall, at any time thereafter, become in-
solvent, or shall wilfully neglect to make sale of such property
so taken in execution, it shall be the duty of the attorney pro-
secuting for the state in that behalf, if he considers it for the
advantage of the state so to do, after the return day of any writ
of execution issued in such case, to issue a new writ, directed
to the sheriff or some coroner for the time being, as the case
niay require ; under which new writ, such sheriff or coroner
way proceed to seize and take into his possession , the goods
and chattels, lands and tenements, so as aforesaid seized by the
insolvent or neglecting sheriff, and there proceed to sell the
same, in the same manner, and under the same provisions and
penalties as are prescribed in cases where any sheriff, coroner or
elisor, shall die before making sale of property taken under

Where
state in
plaintiff,
and sheriff
neglects,
&c. — pro-
ceedings
directed.