| 1785.
CHAP.
XLI. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
within six months after the fact committed, and the defendant in
any suit may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special
matter in evidence, and that eh same was done in pursuance and by authority
of this act; and if it shall appear so to be done, or if any suit
shall be brought after the time limited, then the jury shall find for the
defendant, and if the plaintiff shall become nonsuit, or suffer a discontinuance,
or if a verdict shall pass, or upon demurrer judgment shall be given,
against him, the defendant shall recover treble costs, and have such remedy
for the same as any defendant hath for costs of suit in other cases
at law. |
Passed Mar. 8. |
CHAP. XLII.
An ACT for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors confined
in sundry gaols of this state. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS William Traverse, and Michael Krips, prisoners
confined in the gaols of Baltimore county, Thomas Manuel,
of Cæcil county, Benjamin Elliott, and George Vansant, of
Queen-Anne's county, for debts, by their petitions to the legislature,
have
set forth, that by reason of many misfortunes, they are unable wholly to
satisfy their creditors, and have prayed that they may be discharged from
further confinement, upon the delivering up all their property for
the use
of their creditors; and the prayer of the said petition being found reasonable;
therefore, |
Justices to
grant relief,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General ASsembly of Maryland, That any
three of the justices of the respective counties aforesaid, be, and they
are
hereby required and directed, upon the petitions of the said William Traverse,
Michael Krips, Thomas Manuel, Benjamin Elliott, and George Vansant,
to grant unto them the like relief as by the laws of this state is provided
and enacted for insolvent debtors who are confined for debts not
exceeding two hundred pounds sterling. |
And proceed
conformably
to a former
act, &c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the justices aforesaid, or any two of them,
upon such petitions being made to them, and without any further notice,
by the said William Traverse, Michael Krips, Thomas Manuel, Benjamin
Elliott, and George Vansant, for their discharge, aforesaid, shall thereupon
proceed in all things conformable to the purport, true intent and meaning
of the act for the relief of insolvent debtors not exceeding two hundred
pounds sterling, excepting as to the notice, and that their discharge
be equally valid and effectual, and the proceedings of the said justices
equally good and binding, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. |
Passed Mar. 8. |
CHAP. XLIII.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the destroying
of wolves in Washington and
Frederick counties. |
| Preamble. |
WHErEAS by the act to encourage the destroying of
wolves,
passed at April session seventeen hundred and eighty-three, it
was enacted, that every person or persons producing a certificate
for the head or head of any wolf or wolves, given and obtained according
to the directions of the said act, to the justices of the counties
aforesaid wherein the said wolf or wolves were killed, at the levy court,
should, for every old wolf's head, be allowed six pounds current money,
and for every young wolf's head, be allowed three pounds current money:
And whereas it is represented to this general assembly, that the premiums
aforesaid are particularly oppressive to the inhabitants of Washington
and
Frederick counties, and that if more moderate premiums were given to |
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