1801.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARY LAND.

C H A P.

XV.

Parts of an act
repealed, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all such parts of an act of assembly, entitled, An act to pro-
vide for the administration of justice in case of crimes and misdemeanors in the city and county
of Baltimore, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as relate to the
sitting of the court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, shall be and they
are hereby repealed, and that the court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore
county shall be held on the second Monday in the months of January, March and July, and on
the first Monday in November next, and the said court shall far ever thereafter, during the con-
tinuance of the said act be held on the second Monday in the months of January, March and,
July, and the first Monday in the month of November, in each and, every year.

Precepts, &c.
to be returned,

&c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all precepts and process of every kind, which have or may be
issued out of Baltimore county court, returnable on the Wednesday after the first Monday of Aprit
next, shall be returned to the first Monday of February next, and that all jurors who have been, or
may be summoned to attend on the Wednesday after the first Monday of April next, shall attend,
on the first Monday in February next, and shall so be returned,.

Parts of an act
repealed &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all such parts of an act, entitled, An act to alter the time of
holding the court of appeals, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, as,
relate to the sitting of the court of appeals, shall be and they are hereby repealed, and that the
court of appeals shall be held on the third Monday in the month of June, and the second Monday
in the month of November next, and the said court shall for ever thereafter be held on the third
Monday in the month of June, and the second Monday in the month of November, in each and,
every year.

Parts of an act
repealed, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all such parts of an act, entitled, An act to alter and change
the time for holding the county courts of Baltimore and Washington counties, passed at the last
session of assembly, as relate to the sitting of Baltimore county court, shall be and the same are
hereby repealed.

Court adjourn-
ed.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Baltimore county court, which now stands adjourned to the
first Monday ia December next, be. and the same is, hereby adjourned to the first Monday of Ja-
nuary next.

CHAP XVI.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.
Preamble.

An ACT for the relief of Joseph Forman.

WHEREAS Joseph Forman, of the city of Baltimore, by his petition to this general assem-
bly has set forth, that by reason of many misfortunes and losses in trade he is unable
wholly to satisfy his creditors : And whereas from the peculiar situation of the said Joseph For-
man, the usual provisions contained in the insolvent laws of this state are inapplicable to his case;
therefore,

On applicati-
on, chancellor
to administer
an oath, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland That on the said Joseph Forman's ap-
plication to the chancellor, by petition in writing, offering to deliver to the use of his creditors.
all his property, real, personal or mixed, to which he is any way entitled, a schedule whereof, on
oath, together with a list of his creditors, on oath, as far as.he can ascertain them, shall be an-
nexed to such petition, the chancellor shall administer to the said Joseph Forman the following
oath, to wit : " I, Joseph Forman, do swear, that I will deliver up, convey and transfer, to my
" creditors, in such manner as the chancellor shall direct, all my property that I have or claim,
" any title to, or interest in, at this time, and all debts, rights and claims, which I have, or am
" any way entitled to, in possession, remainder or reversion, and that I have not, directly or in-
" directly, at any time sold, conveyed, lessened or disposed of, for the use of any person or per-
" sons, or intrusted, any part of my money, or other property, debts, rights or claims, thereby
" to defraud my creditors, or any of them, or to secure the same to receive or expect any profit,
" benefit or advantage thereby ;" and the chancellor shall thereupon appoint such person or per-
sons as trustee or trustees as he may think proper, and the trustee or trustees so appointed shall,
before he or they proceed to act, give bond to such person in trust for the use of the creditors of
the said Joseph Forman, and in such penalty as the chancellor may direct, conditioned for the faith-
ful discharge of the trust, which bond shall be recorded in the office of the register of the court
of chancery, and a copy thereof, certified under the hand of the said register, shall be good evi-
dence in any court of law or equity of this state ; and if any trustee or trustees appointed by vir-
tue of this act shall refuse to act, or die, or neglect to give bond as aforepaid in a reasonable,
time