ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.. NOVEMBER.

1807.

and in case the said constable, or other person appointed as aforesaid, shall not be able to find goods
and chattels as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful, and he is hereby directed, at any time at which
he might have made the seizure of the said goods and chattels, to arrest and take the body of such
delinquent before some justice of the peace, who shall commit the same to the public gaol of -the
county, there to be kept by the sheriff of the county for the space of twenty-four hours in close con-
finement, as other persons in execution for debt are kept; and the said constable, or other person ap-
pointed as aforesaid, shall quarter yearly account for and pay over to the paymaster of the regiment,
all money by him received as aforesaid, under the penalty of thirty dollars for every refusal or ne-
glect so to do, and the further sum of five dollars for every ten days thereafter he shall continue such
neglect or refusal, which said fine or fines, imposed as aforesaid upon said constable, or other person
appointed as aforesaid, shall be recovered by the paymaster before a single magistrate as small debts
are recoverable, in the name of the state of Maryland, and to be paid into the hands of the pay-
master of the regiment, or extra battalion, as the case may be, and the said constable, or other
person appointed as aforesaid, shall receive ten per centum on all monies by him collected; and the
said constable, or person so appointed, before he proceed to collect said fines and forfeitures, shall
give bond to the state of Maryland, with security to the satisfaction of the commanding officer of
the company, conditioned, that he will well and truly account for, and pay over to the paymaster of
the regiment or extra battalion to which said company may belong, all such sums of money by him
collected and received under the provisions of this act,

CHAP.
CXXVIII.

XXXVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president of each regimental court-martial shall, with-
in five days after the passing of the sentence of such court-martial, return, in writing, to the com-
manding officer of the regiment, the sentence of such court-martial, with a list of the fines imposed
by the same, under a penalty of ten dollars; and it shall be the duty of the commanding officer of
the regiment, he is hereby enjoined,, within thirty days thereafter, under the penalty of twenty dol-
lars for every neglect or refusal, to make out three lists of such fines and forfeitures, under his hand,
one of which lists he shall deliver to the paymaster of his regiment, another he shall retain himself,
and the third list he shall, before the first day of March in each and every year, deliver to the she-
riff of the county, which said sheriff shall receive the said list, and collect the said fines and for-
feitures, in the same manner, at the same time, under the same terms, penalties and conditions, that
he, or the collector of the county, collects county taxes and levies, and the same, when collected,
shall pay over to the paymaster of the regiment, or extra battalion, as the case may be.

President of
each regimen-
tal,

XXXVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president of each brigade, division and general court-
martial shall, within twenty days after the passing of sentence on any delinquent, return, in writing,
to the respective commanding officers appointing the same, the sentence of such court-martial, under
the penalty of thirty dollars for every neglect or refusal so to do; and it shall be the duty of the
respective commanding officers appointing each court-martial. as aforesaid, before the first day of
March in each and every year, to cause a list of all fines and forfeitures imposed by their several
courts-martials, and by them not released, to be returned, under their hands, to the treasurer of
the eastern or western shore, according to the residence of the persons bound for the payment of
said fines or forfeitures, and also to transmit to the several sheriffs of the different counties in this
state, a list of all fines and forfeitures imposed on delinquents residing in their respective counties,
under the penalty of fifty dollars for every neglect or refusal so to do; and the said sheriffs shall
collect the said fines and forfeitures in the manner, and upon the terms stated in the next aforegoing
section of this, and the same, when collected, shall pay over to the treasurer of their respective
shores for the use of the state of Maryland.

And brigade
court-martial,
to return the
sentence, &c.

XXXIX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of the commanding officer of each com-
pany district, before the first day of September in each and every year, to make return, in writing,
on oath, of all quakers, menonists, tunkers and persons conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms,
exempt from militia duty under the provisions of this act, to the commanding officer of the regiment
to which he belongs, under the penalty of thirty dollars for every neglect or refusal so to do; and it
shall be the duty of the commanding officer of each regiment, before the first day of March, eighteen
hundred and nine, and in each and every year thereafter, to cause three lists of all such persons,
and of the sums of money by them respectively payable as a consideration for their exemption from
militia duty, to be made out under his hand, and one of said lists to be sent to the treasurer of the
shore to which the regiment belongs, another to he retained in his own hands, and the third to be
delivered to the sheriff of the county where such persons reside; and it shall be the duty of the se-
veral sheriffs of this state to collect all such sums of money from the person from whom they are
respectively due,. in the same manner, at the same time, and upon the same terms, penalties and
conditions, that they, or the collectors of the counties, collect county taxes and levies, and the

Commanding
officers to make
returns, &c.