INDEX TO THE LAWS.

Chap.

Sec.

CONSTABLES. Fee for each dog so killed $4

169

Required to report any violations of

the laws regulating sales at auction

261

7

Authorised to take bond of persons

arrested for debt

274

1

To imprison if refused

2

Required to return such bond to the

magistrate

3

Legal notice of sales by, prescribed

290

1

Right and title to real property may

be sold by, to satisfy judgments,

"

2

Return and record of sale required

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"

To be of no avail until ratified by

court

"

3

Deeds for lands, &c. sold by, &c. va-

lid when confirmed by court

"

4

Provisions of the act of 1825, ch.

108, extended to such sales

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To disperse meetings of negroes; pe-

nalty 5 to 20 dollars for neglect

323

7

CONVEYANCES. Further additional supplement to the

act for enrolling, &c.

116

For lands in St. Mary's county, re-

cord whereof has been lately destroyed,

respecting

175

All writings obligatory, or contracts

for conveyances of lands or tenements,

or of any interest or estate in, &c., and

all contracts for leasing and demising,

for any term of years, of lands or tene-

ments, may, if duly executed, be recor-

ded, &c.

205

3

Copies of such record shall be re-

ceived as evidence, &c. as conclusive as

actual conveyance

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"

Further additional supplement to the

act for enrolling, quietting possessions,

and securing the estates of purchasers

205

In all cases of acknowledgment of in-

struments of writing, relating to lands,

the person receiving such acknowledg-

ment shall know or be satisfied, by oath,

of the identity of the person acknow-

ledging, and shall certify the fact of be-

ing so satisfied in his certificate of said

acknowledgment

205

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