| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 125. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
the executive authority of the state or territory from which he or
she fled, be immediately delivered up in pursuance of such demand. |
Chancellor, judge,
&c. refusing a habeas
corpus liable
to an action. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the chancellor,
or any judge
or chief justice of the said court, in the vacation time, upon view
of the copy of the warrant of commitment or detainer, or cause of
commitment, or upon affidavit made that such copy was denied as
aforesaid, shall refuse any writ of habeas corpus by this act required
to be granted, being moved as aforesaid, such chancellor, judge
or justice, shall be liable to the action of the party grieved. |
Persons committed
for treason or felony
to be indicted
at first term,
or admitted to
bail, &c.
Proviso. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person who
shall be committed
for treason or felony, plainly expressed in the warrant of
commitment, upon his or her prayer or petition in open court the
first days of the term or session, to be brought to trial, shall not be
indicted sometime in the next term or session after such commitment,
the judges or justices of the said court shall, upon motion in
open court the last day of the term or session, set at liberty the
prisoner upon bail, unless it shall sufficiently appear to the said
court that the witnesses of the state could not be produced the same
term or session; and if such prisoner, upon his or her prayer or
petition as aforesaid, shall not be indicted and tried the second term
or session, he or she may, in the discretion of the court, be discharged
from his or her imprisonment; Provided, that nothing herein
shall extend to discharge out of prison any person charged with
any other process, but that after he or she shall be discharged
from his or her imprisonment for such criminal offence, he or she
shall be kept in custody according to law for such other suit or
cause. |
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Passed Jan. 6, 1810. |
CHAP. CXXVI.
An Act to authorise and empower the Levy Court of Caroline County
to assess and levy a sum of Money for the purpose therein
mentioned.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 304. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Caroline county have,
by their
petition to this general assembly, set forth, that John Guin, and
Rachel his wife, of said county, sometime since departed this life,
leaving four small children, named James, Samuel, John and Richard
Guin, the oldest of which does not exceed six or seven years
of age, and are left entirely destitute of the means of subsistence,
and have neither friends nor relations capable or able to support
them, and praying that a law may pass authorising the levy court
of Caroline county to assess and levy annually a sum of money for
the support of John, Samuel and Richard Guin, the three youngest
children of the said John and Rachel Guin; therefore, |
Levy authorised
for support of
John, Samuel, and
Richard Guin. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy court of Caroline county be and they are
hereby authorised and directed, to assess and levy on the assessable
property of said county the sum of forty-five dollars annually, so
long as they shall think proper, for the support and maintenance of
the said John, Samuel and Richard Guin, and that the same be levied,
collected and paid, annually, to the person or persons having
the care of the aforesaid John, Samuel and Richard Guin, by the
collector of said county, agreeably to the order of the levy court
aforesaid. |
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