1803.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
XLI.

the said Caleb Summers in virtue of this act shall not discharge any person or persons who now is,
are or shall be, liable or answerable for him in any manner whatsoever, except such person or per-
sons as are or have become bail for the said Caleb Summers, who are hereby discharged therefrom.

When fraud,
&c. is alleged,
may he exa-
mined, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any creditor of the said Caleb Summers shall, within three
years from the passage of this act, allege in writing to the chancellor, or to the general court of the
western shore, or the county court of the county where the said Caleb Summers shall reside, and
confirm his allegation by such proof as the chancellor, or the courts respectively shall deem suffici-
ent, that the said Caleb Summers hath, before the passing of this act, directly or indirectly sold,
conveyed, assigned or oiherwise disposed of, or purchased, in trust for himself, or intrusted, or con-
cealed, any part of his property of any kind, or any part of his debts, rights or ctaims, thereby to
deceive or defraud his creditors, or any of them, or to receive or expect any profit or advantage
thereby, the said chancellor, or court respectively, may thereupon, at the election of the creditor
making such allegation, either examine the said Caleb Summers on interrogatories, on oath or affirma-
tion, touching the subject of the said allegations, or direct an issue or issues in a summary way,
without the form of an action, to determine the truth of the same; and if upon the answer of the
said interrogatories, or the trial of the said issue or issues by a jury, the said Caleb Summers shall be
found guilty of any fraud or deceit of his creditors, he shall be for ever prectuded from any benefit of
this act; and if the said Caleb Summers shall, at any time thereafter, upon indictment, be convicted
of wilfully, falsely and corruptly swearing to any matter or thing to which he shall swear by virtue
of this act, he shall suffer as in case of wilful and corrupt perjury

If arrested, to
be discharged,

&c

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said Caleb Summers shall have been, or shall hereafter be,
arrested or imprisoned on any process sued out on any judgment or decree obtained against him for
nay debt, damages or costs, or on any other process sued out for the recovery of any debt, damages
or costs, contracted, owing or due before the passing of this act, the court before whom such process
shall be returnable, or any one judge or justice thereof during the recess of the court, shall and may
discharge the said Caleb Summers out of custody, directing a common appearance to be entered to
the mesne process; provided, that the discharge of the said Caleb Summers shall not acquit any other
person from such debt, damages or costs, or any part thereof, but that all such persons shall be
answerable for the same in such manner as they were before the passing of this act.

When to apply,
&c.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said Caleb Summers does not make application as aforesaid
on or before the first day of June next, he shall not have any benefit of this act.
CHAP. XLII.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1803.

An ACT to prevent swine and geese from going at large in Taney-
town, in Frederick county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of the inhabitants of
Taney-town, in Frederick county, that great inconveniencies and injuries have resulted from
the going at large of swine and geese in said town; for prevention whereof,

Constable may
seize geese, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
constable of the hundred to seize or impound any geese or swine, the property of any inhabitant of
said town, he shall find going at large therein; and it shall be the duty of said constable so seizing
and impounding, immediately to set up notice thereof in the most public places of said town for at least
three days, and to insert the marks and description of such geese or swine in said notices, and if the
same are not rectaimed within three days after seizure and impounding, and the expences of impound-
ing and keeping, to be allowed by a justice of the peace, be paid, together with the sum of twenty-five
cents for every hog or goose, that the same shall be publicty sold by the said constable, giving three
ctays notice in writing, set up as aforesaid, of the time and place of such sale, and the proceeds of
such sale shall be first applied to the expence of impounding and keeping them, and the surplus, the
one half thereof shall be paid to the constable, and the other half shall be paid over to the super-
visor of the road in said hundred, and by him applied towards the mending and repairing the streets
in said town, to be laid out under the direction of the said supervisor of the road in said hundred.

CHAP. XLIII.

Passed 7th of

January, 1804.

An ACT authorising a lottery to raise a sum of money for repairing
Shrewsbury church in Kent county.

Preamble,

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of the vestry of Shrews-
bury parish in Kent county, that the parish church, and the enctosure of the burial-ground,