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LAWS of MARYLAND.
IV. Provided
also, That nothing in this act shall extend, or be construed to
extend, to charge or make liable the bail given to the sheriff for the
appearance of
any person or persons, on any suit or process returnable at March court
last, or
the bail of sureties bound by recognizance for the appearance of any person
or
persons criminally presented at the said March court, and on which recognizance
no default was then entered, but such bail or sureties shall be in the
same state
and condition as if this act had not been made. |
1787.
CHAP.
XXXII.
Proviso. |
V. And,
whereas writs and other process have been issued by the clerk of
Caroline county aforesaid, since the discontinuance of all business in
said court as
aforesaid, returnable to the next county court to be held for said county;
Be it
enacted, That all writs and other process that have been issued
by the clerk of
the said county since the Monday before the third Tuesday in March last,
shall
be as good and available in law as if the said justices had qualified and
adjourned
the said court, and regularly held the same according to law, and as if
the process
and proceedings of the said court had not been discontinued. |
All writs, &c.
good and available,
&c. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That the erection of the public buildings in Caroline
county, shall be suspended till the end of the next session of assembly,
any law to
the contrary notwithstanding. |
Erection of
buildings suspended. |
CHAP. XXXIII.
An ACT to prevent the inconveniencies arising from slaves being
permitted to act as free. |
Passed May
22. |
BE it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That any person who
shall permit and authorise any slave belonging to him or herself in his
or
her own right, or possessed in the right of another, to go at large or
hire
him or herself within this state, shall incur the penalty of five pounds
current
money per month, except ten days at harvest. |
Penalty on
permitting
slaves to hire
themselves,
&c. |
II. And be it
enacted, That any person who shall hire a slave by contract with
such slave, shall incur the penalty of five pounds current money per month,
except
as before excepted; provided, that any person may permit his slave, being
a pilot, to hire himself in such capacity, and any person may employ
as a pilot,
any slave known, or generally reputed to be a pilot, before the passing
this act. |
On hiring by
contract with
a slave, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That all the penalties aforesaid shall be recovered
before
a single justice of the peace, in the same manner as small debts out of
court
are recovered, and any sum so recovered shall be to the sole use and benefit
of the
informer; provided the offence by sufficiently proved without his or
her own testimony,
otherwise such recovery shall be to the use and benefit of the poor of
such county where the offence shall be committed. |
How penalties
are to be
recovered,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the operation of this act shall commence on the
first day of January next, and shall be read aloud by the clerk of each
county
court at the March and April courts, during the continuance of this act. |
Commencement,
&c. |
V. This act to continue in force during the
term of seven years, and to the
end of the next session of assembly which shall happen thereafter. |
Continuance. |
CHAP. XXXIV.
An ACT respecting insolvent debtors. |
Passed May
25. |
WHEREAS the confinement of the persons of debtors
is inconsistent
with the principles of humanity, and it is reasonable, where debtors
will bonâ fide surrender all their property to the use of
their creditors,
that thereupon they should be discharged from their debts then due: |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That any debtor for
any sum above three hundred pounds current money, may apply by petition
in
writing to the chancellor, and offer to deliver up to the use of his creditors |
Certain debtors
may apply
by petition to
the chancellor,
&c. |
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