| 1801.
CHAP. 42.
Passed Dec. 31. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XLII.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the speedy recovery
of
Small Debts, and to repeal the eight section thereof,
passed at
November Session, seventeen hundred and ninety-one.
(a) Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 49.
(a) Ch.
68. See November 1809, ch. 76, and December 1813, Ch. 162. |
Witnesses not attending
according
to summons may
be attached by justice. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
in all cases where witnesses do not attend according to summons,
the justice of the peace before whom such witnesses ought to have
attended, shall and may enforce obedience to his process by attachment
of contempt, to be made returnable before the justice of the
peace issuing the same, or such other justice of the peace before
whom the same shall be returned, who is hereby authorised and required
to take cognizance thereof, and shall and may, at the discretion
of such justice of the peace before whom the same shall be
heard, tried and determined, fine the offender in any sum not exceeding
twenty shillings current money of Maryland for every
such offence, to be applied towards defraying the charges of the
county wherein the same shall be recovered. |
Execution to issue
upon refusal to
pay. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every justice of
the peace by
whom such fine shall be imposed, shall, upon refusal of the offender
to pay the same, issue execution to the constable to levy said fine,
with costs of execution, on the offender's lands, goods or chattels,
and the constable receiving the said fine shall pay the same to the
justice by whom such execution was issued, who shall, in every
such fine, and pay the same over to the clerk of the county wherein
the same was recovered. |
Clerks to make returns
of fines. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerks of the
several county
courts shall make true return of all such fines by them received to
the justices of the levy courts of their respective counties, to be by
them applied as aforesaid. |
| Section repealed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the eight section
of the act to
which this is a supplement, passed November session, seventeen
hundred and ninety-one, entitled, An act for the speedy recovery of
small debts out of court, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Dec. 31.
* November 1788,
ch. 14. |
CHAP. XLIII.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act for the relief of the
Poor
of Caroline County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 50.
This act repealed by 1817, ch. 102. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XLIV.
An Act for the benefit of Alexander Laing, of Talbot County. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 52. A Private Act. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XLV.
An Act to incorporate a Company for establishing a Turnpike Road
from the Burnt Mill, about one mile below the mouth
of George's
Creek, on the Potomac River, to the nearest western
navigation.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 53. |
Subscriptions for
stock to be opened. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a subscription be opened for fifty thousand dollars, in shares of fifty
dollars each, and that subscriptions be taken under the direction of |
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