1834.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 98.

prescribed by said act, said negroes being named Aaron,
Abner, Strother, George, Emanuel, Jack, Hannah, Caro-
line, Elizabeth, Eveline, Eliza, Carter, and Ann

CHAPTER 9S

Passed Feb. 27, 1835

An act to make valid the proceedings therein mentioned

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly, that
William Onealle, Jr, late Sheriff of Montgomery county,
failed to give bond for the last year of his sheriffalty, with-
out any fault of his, and that he acted as sheriff during that
year, notwithstanding the absence of such bond

Acts confirmed

Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That all acts done by the said William Onealle, Junior,
in his said office of Sheriff of Montgomery county, during
the year for which he failed to give bond according to law,
shall be, and they are hereby declared as valid and effectual,
as if the said William Onealle, Junior, had executed a bond
according to the act of Assembly in such case provided

Bond required

Sec 2 And be it enacted, That before the said William
Onealle, Junior, shall proceed to collect money which may
be payable to others, or sell property under writs of fieri
facias, or venditioni exponas, he shall give bond to the
State of Maryland, in the penalty now prescribed for she-
riff's bonds by the laws of this State, with security to be ap-
proved by Montgomery County Court, or in its vacation, by
the Orphans' Court of said county

Case if failure to

bond

Sec 3. And be it enacted, That if the said William
Onealle, Junior, shall fail to give bond as is prescribed by
the second section of this act, on or before the twentieth day
of March, eighteen hundred and thirty five, then it shall be
lawful for the clerk of Montgomery County Court, and he
is hereby directed, upon application being made to him to
issue writs of fieri facias or venditioni exponas, directed to
the Sheriff (for the time being) of said county, to be executed
by him in the same manner as it no such writs had been is-
sued before.