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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
and authority; and the chancellor may nominate and appoint, and the
request of the parties, a special messenger for the purpose of serving,
executing,
and carrying into effect, any particular process, order or decree,
of the said court; and the said special messenger, upon being qualified
according
to law, shall have the same power and authority, and be entitled
to the same fees, as hereby are given to the standing messenger herein
first
mentioned; and the said messenger shall have and receive of and from the
party or parties against whom such process, orders or decrees, shall be
made and issued, as a fee for the performance of his duty therein, the
sum
of ten shillings current money for serving any process, order or decree,
and a sum in the discretion of the chancellor not exceeding one shilling
per mile for every mile he shall travel in going to serve such process,
order
or decree, and returning, and also any money by him paid for ferriages;
and of the said fee shall not be paid upon demand, the said messenger shall
have an attachment of contempt, to compel the payment thereof, against
the person or persons refusing to pay the said fees, who, being brought
into court upon an attachment, shall and may committed until the
same and the costs are paid to the said messenger, and also the fine for
contempt; or fieri facias, or capias ad satisfaciendum, may issue as
aforesaid
for such fees. |
1785.
CHAP.
LXXII. |
XXXV. And be
it enacted, That the chancellor shall have full power
and authority to commit any person or persons in contempt for not obeying
or complying with any rule, order or decree, of the chancellor, to the
custody of the messenger, by him to be closely confined in the gaol of
Anne-Arundel county, or in the gaol of the county of which such person
shall be an inhabitant, or where he may be taken, unless he be the sheriff
of the county, in which case he may be confined in the gaol of Anne-Arundel
county, or the gaol of any county adjoining the county of which
he shall be sheriff, until such person or persons respectively be released
and discharged by order of the chancellor. |
Chancellor
may commit
persons in
contempt, &c. |
XXXVI. And be
it enacted, That in all cases now depending in the
high court of chancery, as well as in those which may hereafter be brought
into the said court, the chancellor may make and execute any order or
decree in pursuance of the power and authority herein and hereby conferred.
Provided nothing herein contained shall be taken or construed to
deprive any person of the liberty of appeal from any decree made by the
chancellor in the premises. |
And make
any order in
cases depending,
&c. |
XXXVII. This act to continue for five years,
and until the end of
the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter. |
Continuance. |
CHAP. LXXIII.
An ACT for building a new prison in the city of Annapolis. |
Passed March
11. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that there
is no prison in Anne-Arundel county for the reception of debtors
or felons, which is very injurious to the peace and security
of the said county, |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Messieurs
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, John Hall, Brice Thomas Beale Worthington,
James Brice, and William Hall the third, or the major part of them,
shall be commissioners, and are hereby authorised to purchase, for the
use
of Anne-Arundel county, a piece of ground in the city of Annapolis,
whereon to build a new prison; and the said commissioners are hereby
empowered to contract for materials, and to agree with workmen, to
build
and finish the said prison, which, when completed, shall, by the said commissioners, |
Commissioners
appointed,
&c. |
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