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CHAP. 96. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and if the owner or owners shall not, within ten days
after the setting up said advertisements, prove his or her property
therein, and make compensation for the injury, if any, which may
have been sustained by any inhabitant of either of the aforesaid
hundreds, to be ascertained by any two disinterested persons, inhabitants
of the hundred wherein the said swine are impounded,
and shall not pay, for every such swine the sum of twenty-five
cents for every day it shall have been so impounded, it shall and
may be lawful for the person or persons so impounding as aforesaid,
to sell or kill the same, and the person or persons so selling
or killing the said swine, shall deduct the costs and damages out
of the sale or value thereof, to be ascertained by two disinterested
persons of the hundred where such swine were impounded, and the
overplus, after said deduction, the person or persons so selling or
killing the said swine shall pay to the owner or owners thereof. |
Persons sued for
selling or killing
them may give
act in evidence.
Proviso. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall
be sued or impleaded for selling or killing any such swine as aforesaid,
the defendant or defendants may plead the general issue, and
give this act and the special matter in evidence; Provided, that
nothing in this act contained shall be construed to extend to any
part of Cecil county further than is herein above mentioned. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
CHAP. XCVII.
An Act for the payment of the Journal of Accounts. Lib.
TH. No.
1, fol. 295. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it appears by the journal of accounts of
this session,
that there is due from this state the sum of twenty-seven thousand
nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-two cents. |
Treasurer authorised
to pay. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the treasurer of the western shore shall and he is hereby authorised
and required, to pay the several persons, their executors, administrators,
assigns or order, or to such of them as shall offer to
receive the same, the several sums of current money allowed to
them respectively, as they appear to be settled and ascertained by
the said journal of accounts, out of any money now in the treasury,
or that shall come into the treasury, subject to the appropriation
of the general assembly. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
CHAP. XCVIII.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry
Insolvent
Debtors. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 296. |
Preamble.
* Ch. 110. |
WHEREAS doubts have arisen on the construction of
several of
the provisions of the act of the general assembly of Maryland,
passed at November session, one thousand eight hundred and five, *
entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the
said law in some instances requiring amendment; and it appearing
proper to remove the aforesaid doubts, and to remedy the defects
in the said law, therefore, |
Benefit of insolvent
law extended
to persons applying
before 1st January,
1810, &c. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
on the application of any insolvent debtor to any county court of
the county in which the said debtor shall reside, or to any one of
the judges thereof, before the first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and ten (a), it shall and may be lawful for the said
(a) See note (p) under 1805, ch. 110, s. 21. |
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