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GEORGE PLATER, Esquire, Governor.
VII. And be it
enacted, That as soon as congress pass an act ascertaining the
ratio of representation, the governor and council are hereby requested
to cause the
same, together with this act, to be published in the Maryland journal,
and Baltimore
Advertiser, the Annapolis and the Easton papers. |
1791.
CHAP.
LXII. |
CHAP. LXIII.
An ACT respecting the fees of the attorney-general and his deputies
on executions in certain cases. |
Passed December
26. |
WHEREAS it is unreasonable that the attorney-general
and his deputies
should receive fees for executions issued in criminal cases, when
no fees are allowed to attornies for executions issued in civil cases; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by
the General Assembly of Maryland, That no fees shall be
charged or received, after the passing of this act, by the attorney-general,
or any
of his deputies, for any execution to be issued against any person,
or his securities,
for any fine imposed, or to be imposed, by any court of this state,
or the costs
on the prosecution. |
No fees to be
charged, &c.
by attorney-general,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That all such parts of an act, entitled, An act for
the
more speedy and effectual recovery of common law fines and forfeited
recognizances,
as give fees to the attorney-general, or his deputies, in the cases
aforesaid,
shall be and are hereby repealed. |
Parts of an act
repealed. |
CHAP. LXIV.
An ACT to alter the time of holding the courts in the counties
of this state therein named. |
Passed December
26. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly
that the holding
of some of the county courts in this state at the times prescribed
by
law, is attended with considerable inconvenience, |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after
the first day of January next, the courts for Allegany county shall hereafter
be
respectively held on the fourth Monday in April and on the third Monday
of
October, in each year, and the courts of Charles county shall hereafter
be held
on the third Mondays in March and August in each year, and of Calvert county
on the third Mondays in April and September in each year. |
When courts
are to be held. |
III. And be
it enacted, That all process, pleas and proceedings, civil and
criminal, issued or to be issued, and depending on the said first day of
January
next in any of the said county courts, shall be continued, and shall be
returned
and returnable to the days and times herein above specified for the respective
counties, any thing in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Process, &c.
continued,
&c. |
CHAP. LXV.
An additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act to regulate
public ferries. |
Passed December
27. |
WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether the several county
courts of
this state have power to contract for the keeping of such ferries as
they may think necessary, at the county expence; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the several
county courts shall be and they are hereby authorised and empowered
to contract
with such person or persons as they shall think proper, at such price as
they shall judge reasonable, for the keeping of public ferries at such
place or
places as they shall judge necessary, and that the price so contracted
for shall
be paid by and levied on the county in the same manner as other county
charges;
and in such cases the said courts shall respectively take recognizances
from, and
ascertain the prices to be taken by, the persons keeping such ferries,
from all
persons not entitled to pass free, in the manner directed by the original
act to
which this is an additional supplement. |
Courts to contract
for public
ferries, &c. |
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