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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
the levy court of the county, for the due performance of the duties
of a constable, and also the duties and trust reposed in them by
virtue of this act, whose duty it shall be to have the same filed or
entered on record by their clerks; Provided also, that nothing in
this act contained shall be construed to prohibit or prevent the sheriff
or their deputies, in the respective counties, from executing or
levying executions issued by a justice of the peace for small debts
out of court, when the same are put into their hands for that purpose,
in the same manner as by law they have been or now are authorised
to do.
By 1806, ch. 21, constables neglecting
to make due return of any execution, may
be fined, and judgment may be entered against him and his securities, on
failing
to make return. If return is made, and he fails to have the defendant
before the
justice, judgment may be entered against him and his securities, at any
time within
60 days. |
1801.
CHAP. 62. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any judgment
obtained
before a single magistrate shall have continued for more than one
year, and the said judgment had not been paid or satisfied, it
shall and may be lawful for the justices before whom the said judgments
had been obtained, or any other justice of the peace for said
county, to revive the same by a writ of scire facias, which shall
be
made returnable on a certain day, not exceeding forty days from
the time of issuing the same, to the said justice, or to any other
justice of the peace of said county; and any constable, qualified as
above mentioned, of the hundred, or of the said county, is hereby
authorised and required to serve such writ of scire facias, and
make
due return thereof on the return day mentioned in the said writ, in
the same manner, and entitled to the same fee, and liable to the
same penalty, as in the case of a warrant issued by a single magistrate,
according to the law in such case made and provided. |
Judgments, in
certain cases, may
be received. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it may be lawful
for any constable
of the county qualified as aforesaid, to deliver at the county
gaol, to the sheriff or gaoler of the said county, any person committed
by a single magistrate on a capias ad satisfaciendum, when
the case may or doth so require, and that he said sheriff or his
gaoler is hereby required and directed to take charge of such person,
and the same in his custody safe keep, until such person or
persons shall be duly discharged therefrom according to law. |
Constables may
deliver persons at
county gaol. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue to be in force
for and during the continuance of the act to which this is a supplement.
There is no limitation to the original act. |
Duration. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
act to which this
is a supplement as is contrary to, or inconsistent with, this act, be
and the same is hereby repealed. |
Part of an act repealed. |
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CHAP. LXIII.
An Act to regulate the Inspection of Tobacco. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 99.
Supplementary and other acts, 1802,
ch. 27. 1803, ch. 4, ch. 95. 1804, ch. 85.
1805, ch. 98. 1806, ch. 12. 1811, ch. 37, ch. 52, ch. 145.
November 1812, ch. 112.
1815, ch. 214. 1817, ch. 73. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS, in order properly to regulate the inspection
of tobacco,
it is essentially necessary to prevent the exportation of such as
is unmerchantable; |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful to export, or |
No tobacco to be
exported unless in
hogsheads inspected
and marked. |
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