1831

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 7.

evidence as provided for by the act to which this is a sup-
plement.

To report sale.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
said William Price, David Claggett and Isaac S. Swear-
ingen, and the survivors or survivor of them, within thirty
days after making any sale as authorised by the act to which
this is a supplement, to make report thereof to Washington
county court, to be recorded among the records of said
court; and that it shall be the duty of said Price, Claggett
and Swearingen, every six months until their trust shall be
finally executed by payment over or investment of the mo-
nies of all the sales made by them under authority of said

To account.

act, to report under oath to said court, an account of their
said trust, exhibiting the sales made and the monies received
by them, and the amount remaining in hands of said per-
sons, or of any of them, from such sales; whereupon on
the filing of said report, it shall be the duty forthwith of
said court, in reference to the investment required by the
second section of the act aforesaid, to order by a certain

Investment order-
ed.

day the investment, in such way as to the court shall seem
proper, of the monies or the part thereof required as afore-
said to be invested, appearing by such account to be in the
hands of said persons, or of any of them; which order
shall be obligatory upon each and all of the said persons
without regard to the fact in whose hands, among said per-
sons, said monies may appear actually to be. And that it
shall be the duty of said court ex officio, to enforce said or-

Court to enforce
orders,

ders for the said investment, and also, the performance of
the duty aforesaid of reporting every six months, in such
manner, as orders of said court sitting as a court of equity
may be enforced.

Payment over.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That in the cases where pay-
ment over of monies from said sales, is directed by the se-
cond section of the act to which this is a supplement, it
shall be the duty of the court upon the reports aforesaid
being made respectively, to order the payment over afore-
said, and to enforce such order by such means as may be
used for enforcing orders of said court sitting as a court of
equity.

Copies evidence.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That copies from the record
of the reports aforesaid, certified by the clerk of Wash-
ington county court, whether said reports be made by said
Price, Claggett and Swearingen, or by any of them, shall
be competent evidence against each and all of said persons
respectively, their respective executors and administrators,
in any court of Jaw or equity in this state.