GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

CHAPTER 302.

CHAP. 303

A supplement to an act, entitled, An act concerning the Judg-

Passed Mar.12, 1832

ments and Judicial Proceedings of the courts of justice in

this state, and to provide for the completion of the Records

in certain cases, passed at December session, eighteen hun-

dred and seventeen, chapter one hundred and nineteen.

WHEREAS, the act to which this is a supplement, has

Preamble

been construed to require the recording of all the judgments

and writs of execution, under which any one sale of lands

or tenements may take place, thus unnecessarily increasing

expense to the parties interested — Therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, where any sale

Record of one
judgment & short
copies of others di-

of lands or tenements shall be made, and the amount of

rected.

such sale shall not exceed one thousand dollars, under and

and by virtue of two or more writs of execution, it shall

be deemed a compliance with the act, to which this is a

supplement, to make up the record only of the elder of

said judgments, and of the writs of execution thereon, and

sale under said writ, and that of each of the other said

judgments there shall be recorded only a short copy, and

of the wilts of execution thereon respectively , only the

docket entries: Provided always, That it shall be the duty

Proviso

of the clerk, when required by any purchaser, his heirs,

executors, administrators or assigns, to record any other

judgment or judgments, or writ of execution, and return

under which the said sale may have been made.

CHAPTER 303.

An act to provide for the public Printing of the State

Passed Mar.13,1832

WHEREAS, great inconvenience has resulted from the

Preamble.

practice of delaying the contract for the public printing of

each session, till the commencement of such session, for res-

medy thereof,

Section 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-

Contact directed

land, That the joint committee on printing contract before

the close of the present session, with such person, or per-

sons as they may deem expedient, for the printing of the

next session of the legislature, on terms and conditions not

exceeding in cost those upon which they have contracted

for the printing of the present session.

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