THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1836.

firmation of said act, and to do and perform all official
acts necessary or proper to the discharge and full ex-
ecution of all and any official duties which devolved
upon them, severally, before the confirmation of said
act, in the same manner in all respects, and with the
same rights and powers as if the said act had not been
confirmed.

CHAP. 262.

SEC. 3. Aud whereas, by the fourth section of the
said recited act it is provided in effect, that all causes,
process and pleadings, which should be depending in
Frederick county court, and Baltimor: county court,
at the time of the confirmation of said act, should and
might be prosecuted as effectually in the court in which
the same should be depending, as if the said act had
not been made, and doubts are entertained by some
whether the sheriff of Frederick county, and the sheriff

attachment, subpoenas and other process, which may
be issued in the progress of such causes, and it being
desirable to preclude all such doubts by legislative
enactment, Therefore,

Preamble

Be it enacted, That the sheriff of Frederick county,
in respect of such part of Carroll county as was parcel
of Frederick county, and the sheriff of Baltimore coun-
ty, in respect of such part of Carroll county as was
parcel of Baltimore county, shall respectively, have
full power and lawful authority, and they are hereby
authorised, empowered and required to serve all sub-
poenas, attachments, notices, writs and other process,
to serve and execute all writs of capias ad satisfacien-
dum, fieri facias, habcre facias possessionem, and all
and any other writs, mandates and process whatever,
which have heretofore been issued in the progress of
any suits or causes in the said courts, depending at the
time of the confirmation of said act, and which have
come to their respective hands since the confirmation
of said act, or which shall hereafter be issued in any
of said suits or causes, and be delivered to the said
sheriffs respectively, for execution in the same manner,
in all respects and with the same power and authority
as if the said act had not been confirmed.

Powers continue
ed as though
Carroll county
had not been

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all and singular the
acts, deeds and other the proceedings of the said late
and present sheriffs respectively, so far as hereby au-

Proceedings

confirmed