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CHAP.
VIII. |
18 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
a draught for the residue; any two persons, entitled each
to half a pew, to join in a chance. The person
who draws a pew, is to have a complete right, an entry thereof being made
in the register book, which
entry is to be made on his paying the cost of erecting it, together with
his subscription; but if he refuse
or fail to pay, his pew is to be exposed to public sale, and an entry of
the sale is to be made in the register
book in order to give the purchaser a title. The register's fee is
to be a shilling.
After giving public notice to the freeholders, having
each at least 50 acres of land, to come in, and
notify their desire of having pews, the vestry are to cause the pews and
seats in the parish
church to be ballotted for, in the manner and upon the terms before mentioned;
but if the
purchase money be not paid on demand, a new ballot shall take place among
those freeholders who
shall have drawn blanks; or if all the freeholders shall have been accommodated,
the pews paid for,
with the surplus pews, are, at the next meeting of the vestry, to be sold
at auction. And if there shall
be any surplus money, the vestry shall dispose of it, at discretion, to
the use of the church. In case of the
death of any trustee appointed by this act, the owners of lots inhabiting
the town shall elect a trustee in
his room. |
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CHAP. IX.
An ACT to empower the justices of Somerset and Worcester counties,
to levy on
the taxable inhabitants of Stepney parish, in Somerset
and Worcester counties,
the quantity of one hundred and sixty thousand pounds
of tobacco, for the uses
therein mentioned.
This act enables the vestrymen and
wardens to purchase two acres of land on the south side of Wicomico,
above the branch whereon is the mill of William Venables, and to contract
for building thereon
a chapel of ease; and to purchase two acres of land near Spring-hill, and
to contract for erecting thereon
another chapel of ease.
The quantity of 100,000lb. of tobacco
is to be assessed in the years 1768 and 1769, for building the
first chapel; and 60,000lb. is to be assessed in 1770
and 1771, for building the chapel at Spring-hill. |
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CHAP. X.
An ACT for the recovery of certain amerciaments, and also upon
defaults on executions. |
Sheriffs, &c.
being called
upon by the
court to bring
in defendants,
before arrested,
and shall
omit or fail so
to do, the justices
may order
judgment
to be entered
for the plaintiff,
against
such sheriff,
&c. |
Be it therefore enacted,
by the right honourable the lord proprietary, by and with
the advice and consent of his lordship's governor, and the upper and lower
houses of assembly, and the authority of the same, That in case any
sheriff or
coroner shall be called upon, by the order of the justices of the provincial,
or of any
county court, to bring before them any defendant or defendants, before
arrested by
such sheriff or coroner, according to the said sheriff's or coroners return
of, or
upon any writ, being either mesne process, or of execution, and shall fail,
neglect
or omit, to bring into court such defendant or defendants, and therefore
shall be amerced by the justice aforesaid, or have his default entered,
then, and
in either such case, it shall and may be lawful for the justices aforesaid,
in the
name of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, and to and for his, her or their use,
on
motion, to order and direct judgment to be entered up against such sheriff
or
coroner, for the sum in which the said sheriff or coroner shall be amerced,
or for
the sum and costs recovered against the person or persons taken on execution,
which respective judgments shall have the force and effect, to all intents
and
purposes, of any judgment rendered on the verdict of a jury. |
| Proviso. |
II. Provided
always, That before the said judgments shall become absolute,
for the said sum in which the aforesaid sheriff or coroner shall be amerced,
or for
the sum and costs recovered against the person or persons taken on execution,
against the said sheriff or coroner, the plaintiff or plaintiffs, his,
her or their executors
or administrators, shall make appear, to the satisfaction of the justices
aforesaid,
a demand by him, her or them, or his, her or their attorney at law, made
of
or from the sheriff or coroner aforesaid, of the sum in which such sheriff
or coroner
shall be amerced, or of the sum and costs recovered against the person
or persons
taken on execution as aforesaid, and also the refusal or neglect of the
sheriff
or coroner to pay the same respective sums, according to such demand; and
also,
that the plaintiff or plaintiffs, his, her or their executors or administrators,
or his,
her or their attorney at law, in the case of such amerciament, as aforesaid,
upon
the return of any writ, being mesne process, offered or tendered to the
said sheriff
or coroner, an assignment of the cause of action, when the same cause of
action
shall arise on contract, whereupon the original writ issued. |
Sheriff, &c.
amerced, who |
VIII. And be
it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and
may be
lawful for the sheriff or coroner who shall be amerced as aforesaid, and
unto whom |
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