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CHAP. 63. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
further damages for such offence, if the said sum or sums herein
mentioned be not sufficient to repair and satisfy such damages. |
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Passed Jan. 12, 1805. |
CHAP. LXIV.
An Act to direct the mode of collecting the several Taxes imposed
on
Proceedings in the Court of Chancery. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 639. |
Register to keep
account of taxes
on chancery proceedings,
&c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the register of the court of chancery shall keep an exact account of
the taxes imposed by law (a) on chancery proceedings for services
done in the said court for persons resident within this state, and
deliver or send the same to the several sheriffs of the particular
counties, who are hereby required to collect the same
by way of execution, or otherwise, and commanded not to return
any in arrears, except in case of the debtor's insufficiency or non-residence
in the county, and to pay the same to the treasurer of
the respective shore, as the case may be; and every sheriff may retain
at the rate of six per cent. for his trouble in collecting and
paying the said taxes according to this act.
(a) See November 1792, ch. 76,
the fifth section of which act made permanent
by ch. 108 of this session. |
List of the same to
be laid before general
assembly. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the register in
chancery shall annually
lay before the general assembly a fair list of the said taxes,
as they shall yearly arise, which said list shall be returned, on oath,
stating particularly the suits on which the said taxes shall arise,
and the particular services for which the said taxes shall become due. |
Not to be demanded
otherwise than
according to this
act.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said taxes
shall not be demanded
from any persons resident within this state otherwise than
according to the provisions of this act, any law, usage or custom,
to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided nevertheless, that any
thing herein contained shall not be construed or understood to alter
or change the mode prescribed for collecting the taxes which may
arise for services done in the said court for persons who do not reside
within this state, but in such cases the said taxes shall be received
and paid as heretofore directed by the act imposing the said
taxes. |
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Passed Jan. 12, 1805. |
CHAP. LXV.
A Further Additional Supplement to the act, (a) entitled,
An act to provide
for the Administration of Justice in cases of Crimes
and Misdemeanors
in the City and County of Baltimore. Lib.
JG. No. 4,
fol. 639.
(a) 1799, ch.
58. See 1800, ch. 31, and the acts there referred to. |
Certain writs, how
to be recovered. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all writs for the recovery of any penalty, fine or forfeiture, imposed
by the court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore
county, (b) shall be hereafter issued by the clerk of the said court,
and made returnable thereto, and shall be tested in the name of the
chief justice thereof; and the said court shall have and exercise the
same powers, rights and jurisdiction, over and touching the said
writs, and the matters and facts to which the same relate, as now
is possessed and exercised by Baltimore county court.
(b) By 1816, ch. 193, all the
powers, &c. vested in the court here mentioned, or
the justices thereof, within the city of Baltimore, are vested in and may
be exercised
by Baltimore city court, or the judges thereof. |
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