WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840.

the prizes which may be drawn to such tickets; which ob-
ligation shall be deemed to be within condition of their
bond aforesaid.

CHAP. 216.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the money raised un-
der and by virtue of the provisions of this act, shall be
paid over to, and received by the above named commis-
sioners, to be by them applied to the clearing out of Po-
comoke river, in Worcester county.

Application of
money received.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act, and all the
privileges, franchises and rights conferred hereby, shall
expire and cease to be exercised at the expiration of the
year eighteen hundred and forty-five, or at the time when
all other grants by the State shall expire.

CHAPTER 216.

In force.

An act supplemental to an act, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirteen, chapter one hundred and
two, entitled an act relating to Sheriffs, and for other
purposes.

Passed Feb. 20,
1841.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the executor or
administrator of any sheriff, coroner or elisor, who may
have died, or shall hereafter die, during his term of ser-
vice, within twenty days after the granting of his letters,
to deliver to the sheriff, for the time being, if there be one
who has qualified, and if there be no sheriff, then to some
qualified coroner of the county, all writs and process of
every description, which may be in the hands of said de-
ceased sheriff, or other officer, at the time of his death,
and directed to him as sheriff, coroner or elisor as afore-
said, together with all schedules, lists, entries and memo-
randa, showing the acts and proceedings of the said sheriff

All writs, &c. of
any deceased
sheriff to be by
executor deliv-
ered to sheriff
for time being.

or other officer, in virtue thereof; and it shall be the duty
of the said new sheriff or coroner, and he is hereby autho-
rised and required, to proceed to complete the execution
of said process, in the same manner as the sheriff or other

New sheriff to
execute process.

officer, dying as aforesaid, might have done; provided, that
nothing in this act, shall be so construed as to interfere
with any right or liens, created or acquired under and by
virtue of said process, and the proceedings in pursuance
thereof; and the executor or administrator of the sheriff or
other officer so dying as aforesaid, shall be entitled to

Proviso.

Fees.