| 1786.
CHAP.
XII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
may, in case the distress shall appear to them excessive, order such
part of
the goods as they may think proper and just, to be immediately released,
and
may order either party to pay the costs, and the expences of the commissioners
sitting, as justice may require, and may enforce a compliance with
their order by
process as aforesaid. |
Passed January
20. |
CHAP. XIII.
An ACT to revive and continue the proceedings of the orphans
court of Calvert county. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the orphans court of Calvert county was
to be held on
the second Tuesday in December, and no justices attended to call
and adjourn the same by reason of the inclemency of the weather,
whereby all process and proceedings in said court were discontinued:
For remedy
whereof, |
Actions, &c.
revived, &c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by
the general assembly of Maryland, That every action, process
and proceeding, depending in the said court on the second Tuesday of
December
aforesaid, shall be and is hereby revived and continued until the second
Tuesday
in February next, and on the said day every action, process and proceeding,
shall stand and be in the same state and condition, to all intents
and purposes, as
the same were in the said second Tuesday of December aforesaid; and
the said
orphans court, on the second Tuesday in February, seventeen hundred
and eighty-seven,
may proceed to hear, determine or continue, each and every of the
said actions, in the same manner that the said court might have legally
done at
the aforesaid second Tuesday of December aforesaid, any discontinuance,
or want
of continuance, of any of the said actions, process or proceedings,
notwithstanding. |
Passed January
20. |
CHAP. XIV.
An ACT to repeal part of the act for the better security of the
government. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS this general assembly are of opinion, that
it is impolitic and
unnecessary to continue any longer the discrimination created, and
the
penalties and disabilities imposed, on nonjurors by the act for the
better security of the government; |
Part of an act
repealed. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That such part of the
said act, entitled, An act for the better security of the government, as
disqualifies
and disables nonjurors from holding offices, and voting at elections, shall
be and
hereby is repealed. |
| Proviso. |
III. Provided
always, and it is hereby enacted, That no person whatever, who
hath not heretofore taken and subscribed the oaths to government, as directed
by the act, entitled, An act for the better security of government, shall
be admitted
to vote at any election, until he shall take or affirm, as the case
may be,
and subscribe, the oath of allegiance prescribed by the fifty-fifth
article of the
constitution of this state, before some justice of the peace in the
county where he
resides, or one of the judges of the general court. |
Passed January
20. |
CHAP. XV.
An ACT to confirm unto Abraham Reese, of Harford county, his title
in a
moiety of a tract of land called
West's Favour. (A private act) |
Passed January
20. |
CHAP. XVI.
An ACT for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors confined in Baltimore
county
gaol. (A private act.) |
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