| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
rights, the constitution and form of government, as relate to the
administration of oaths in certain cases, passed at the last session
of the general assembly of Maryland, be and the same is hereby
confirmed, and declared to be part of the constitution and form of
government of this state. |
1818.
CHAP. 163. |
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CHAP. CLXIV.
An Act to provide for erecting a Wharf at the Town of Upper-Marlborough,
in Prince-George's County. Lib. TH. No. 6,
fol. 375. |
Passed Feb. 11, 1819. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the justices of the levy court of Prince-George's county be and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, to assess and levy on
the assessable property of the county, such sum of money as they
may think necessary, not exceeding two thousand dollars, for purchasing
as much ground as may be required, and for erecting a
wharf thereon at or near the town of Upper Marlborough in said
county. |
Levy authorised. |
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CHAP. CLXV.
An Act to prevent the running at large of Swine at Easton Point,
in
Talbot County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 375. |
Passed Feb. 11, 1819. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of May next, it shall not be lawful for
any person or persons to permit swine of any description whatsoever
to run at large at Easton Point, or in its immediate vicinity. |
Swine not permitted
to run at large. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for any
person to cause a warrant to be issued against the owner or owners
of any swine, that at any time after the first day of May, eighteen
hundred and nineteen, may be found running at large at said point,
and the said owner or owners thereof shall be subject to a fine of
one dollar in each and every case that may occur, to be recovered
before any single magistrate in the county of Talbot, which said
fine shall be paid over to the informer in every instance. |
Owners of swine
running at large
may be warranted
and fixed. |
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CHAP. CLXVI.
A Supplement to the act(a), entitled, An act for the speedy
recovery of
small debts out of Court, and to repeal the Acts of
Assembly therein
mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 376.
(a) 1791, ch. 68. See 1801, ch. 42, and the acts there referred
to. |
Passed Feb. 11, 1819. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from henceforth, in any case of appeal from the decision of a justice
of the peace to the county court, where two summonses against
the appellee shall be returned non est, or one attachment returned
non est, and the said appellee shall not appear according to the
tenor
of the second summons, the court may proceed to hear and determine
such case, in the same manner as if the appellee had regularly
appeared, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
In appeals from a
justice of the peace
county courts may
proceed to hear
and determine
cases. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any justice
of the peace in
this state shall be convicted in the court of the county where the
fact may be committed, of granting hereafter blank warrants or
executions, under his hand, to any constable or party, he shall be
fined by the court a sum not less than one hundred dollars, and not
exceeding four hundred. |
Penalty on justice
granting blank
warrants or executions,
&c. |
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