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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
such executor or administrator obtained letters testamentary or
letters of administration, to record any such receipt, acquittance,
release or final discharge, produced to be recorded, in a well bound
book to be kept for that purpose. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 168. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a copy of any such
receipt, acquittance,
release or final discharge, acknowledged and recorded
as aforesaid, duly attested under the seal of the office in which the
same is recorded, shall, at all times hereafter, be admitted as evidence
to prove such receipt, acquittance, release or final discharge. |
Copy of such discharge,
duly attested,
to be evidence. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any receipt, acquittance,
release
or final discharge, from any heirs, legatee, representative of full
age, or other persons authorised to execute the same, to any executor,
administrator or guardian, by a nonresident of this state,
acknowledged as aforesaid in the town, city, county or place, where
such person may reside, with a certificate of such acknowledgment,
and seal of office thereto annexed, may be received and recorded
by such register, and placed on his record, as other receipts,
acquittances, releases or final discharge, may be recorded,
and admitted in evidence as aforesaid; and such register of wills
may ask, demand and receive, such fee for recording the same, as
is allowed by law in other cases of a similar nature. |
Release, &c. by a
non resident, acknowledged
and
certified, may be
recorded. |
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CHAP. CLXIX.
An Act concerning Costs in Criminal Prosecutions. Lib.
TH. No.
2, fol. 387. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1810. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
for every warrant of a criminal nature issued by any justice of the
peace, and served by any constable, the constable so serving the
same, and producing the person against whom the warrant issued,
shall be entitled to receive thirty-three cents current money for his
services. |
Constable's costs
for serving warrants. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases aforesaid
which shall
come before the county courts, or the criminal court of oyer and
terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, for trial and decision,
the clerks of the several courts aforesaid shall, if the traverser
or person presented to be found guilty, and there has been in
the first instance a warrant served upon the said traverser or party
presented, tax against the traverser aforesaid the constable's costs
for serving the said warrant. |
Clerk to tax said
costs against traverser,
if found guilty. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases aforesaid
which shall
come before any of the courts aforesaid for trial and decision, the
clerks of the said courts shall, where the person or persons presented
and tried are acquitted, if there have been a warrant served
against the said person or persons by a constable, tax the said constable's
costs for service aforesaid against the state. |
And against the
state if traverser
be acquitted.
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4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy courts
in the several
counties of this state shall levy, in all such cases last aforesaid
described, upon the assessable property in the county, the costs
taxed by the clerk against the state for the service aforesaid.
For other fees and allowances to constables,
see 1715, ch. 15, s. 7; 1723, ch. 15,
s. 4; October 1780, ch. 17; 1801, ch. 62, s. 3, 4; 1806,
ch. 81, s. 4, 5; and 1817,
ch. 142—See 1808, ch. 47, as to constables in Queen-Anne's
county, 1810, ch.
106, as to those in Talbot county, and 1818, ch. 209,
as to those in the city of
Baltimore. |
Costs taxes against
state to be levied
on the county. |
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