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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CLXIV.
An Act concerning Sentences of Foreign Courts. Lib. TH.
No. 4,
fol. 209. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 164.
Passed Jan. 31, 1814. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
no sentence, judgment or decree, final or interlocutory, of any
judge, court, board, council or tribunal, having or exercising municipal,
admiralty or prize jurisdiction, without the limits of the
United States, and its territories, shall be conclusive evidence in
any case or controversy in the courts of this state, of any fact,
matter or thing, therein contained, stated or expressed, except of
the acts and doings of such foreign judge, court, board, council or
tribunal; Provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall
be so construed as to impair or destroy the legal effects of any
such foreign sentence, judgment or decree, on the property affected
or intended to be affected thereby; And provided also, that
nothing
herein contained shall extend to any suit or action now depending
in any of the courts of this state. |
Foreign decrees
not to be conclusive
evidence
within the jurisdictional
limits of
the U. States.
Provisos. |
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CHAP. CLXV.
An Act authorising Persons to whom Letters Testamentary or of Administration
have been or may be granted in the District of Columbia,
to prosecute and recover Claims in this State.
Lib. TH. No.
4, fol. 209. |
Passed Jan. 31, 1814. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
it shall be lawful for any person or persons to whom letters testamentary
or of administration hath been or may hereafter be granted
by the proper authorised in the District of Columbia, to maintain
any suit or action, and to prosecute and recover any claim in this
state, in the same manner as if the letters testamentary or of administration
had been granted to such person or persons by the
proper authority in this state; and the letters testamentary or of
administration, or a copy thereof, certified under the seal of the
authority granting the same, shall be sufficient evidence to prove
the granting thereof, and that the person or persons, as the casE
may be, hath or have administration. |
Persons to whom
letters testamentary,
&c. have been
granted in District
of Columbia, to
maintain suit in
this state. |
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CHAP. CLXVI.
A Supplement to an act (a), entitled, An act for the relief
of the Poor
of Queen
Anne's County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 210.
(a) 1788, ch. 15. Other
acts 1804, ch. 58; 1814,. ch. 48; 1816, ch. 167. |
Passed Jan. 28, 1814. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the trustees of the poor for Queen Anne's county, be and they are
hereby authorised and empowered, in their discretion, to keep any
number of out pensioners, not exceeding ten at one time, in addition
to the number heretofore authorised to be kept by an act of assembly,
entitled, An act to enlarge the powers of the trustees of
the poor in the several counties therein designated, passed November
session seventeen hundred and ninety-nine*, on such terms and
conditions, and under the same restrictions and limitations, as are
provided in said act. |
* Ch. 65. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue and be in
force for two years, and no longer.
Further continued by 1816, ch. 267, ch. 198. |
Duration. |
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