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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
road shall be laid; and the said commissioners shall be allowed,
each, one dollar and fifty cents per day for performing the duties
required of them by this act. |
1811.
CHAP. 163. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case there shall
be counter petitioners
to such road, the levy court in that case shall use their discretion
as to the appointing of commissioners to lay out said road,
or refusing so to do. |
A discretionary
power vested. |
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CHAP. CLXXIV.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act for regulating the mode
of
staying execution, passed at November session
seventeen hundred
and ninety-one (a). Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 225.
(a) Ch. 67. See 1801, ch. 62. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
from and after the passage of this act, no execution against the
body or goods of any citizen of this state, shall issue upon any
judgment confessed before any justice of the peace with stay of
execution for six months thereafter, according to the provisions of
the act to which this is a supplement, when such judgment has
been assigned by the person or persons obtaining the same, unless
the said justice of the peace shall be satisfied by evidence that a
demand has been made by the person or persons holding such judgment
under such assignment, or by some person or persons duly
authorised on his behalf, upon the principal debtor in the said
judgment, for the amount of the same, at or since the time when
the same became payable; Provided always, that such demand need
not be made on such principal debtor if he shall have removed
since such confession of judgment, from his then place of residence. |
Stay of execution
on confessed judgments.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CLXXV.
An Act to authorise the Levy Court of Anne-Arundel County to assess
and levy a sum of money for the purpose therein mentioned.
Lib.
TH. No. 3, fol. 226. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
WHEREAS Martha Sewell of Anne-Arundel county, by
her petition
to this general assembly hath set forth, that she is far advanced
in years and labouring under the infirmity of old age,
which renders her incapable of supporting herself, and hath prayed
that a law may pass authorising and directing the levy court of
Anne-Arundel county, a sum of money for her support; and the prayer
of the petitioner appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Anne-Arundel county shall and they are hereby
empowered at their levy court annually, so long as they shall see
cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property of said county,
a sum of money not exceeding thirty dollars, for the support and
maintenance of the said Martha Sewell, and that the same be collected
annually by the collector of Anne-Arundel county, and by
him paid to the said Martha Sewell, or her order. |
Levy authorised
for support of
Martha Sewell. |
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