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SAMUEL STEVENS, JR. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses 1824

and they are hereby required to receive such certificates in pay-
ment of all executions or judgments obtained by such banks.

Passed Feb.
26. 1825.
Restricting
former acts.

Proviso.

Further pro-
viso.

CHAPTER 200.
A supplement to an act entitled, An act against excessive Usury.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That no-
thing in the original act to which this is a supplement, shall be con-
strued or extend to destroy the right to sue and recover by any le-
gal or equitable assignee, indorsee, or holder of any bond, bill, ob-
ligatory bill of exchange, promissory note, or other negotiable in-
strument, Provided always, that such assignee, indorsee, holder or
cestuique use shall have received such bond, bill obligatory, bill of
exchange, promissory note, or other negotiable instrument for a
bona fide and legal consideration, without notice of any usury in
the creation or subsequent assignment or negotiation thereof, any
law, usage or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding; and provided
also, that the provisions herein contained shall not extend to any
bond, bill obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note, or other
negotiable instrument, made or created before the passage of this
act.

Passed Feb.
25,1825.
Rifle regi-
ment.

Attached to
9th Brigade.

CHAPTER 201.

An act to form certain Rifle Companies therein mentioned into a Regiment.
Sec 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Rifle Companies commanded by Captains Abdiel Unkefer, Wm.
Willis, L. W. Gosnell, George W. Gist, Wm. H. Poole, Thomas
Hammond, David W. Neale, and George Harman, of Frederick
county, shall from and after the passage of this act, form and con-
stitute a rifle regiment, the requisite Number of field and staff of-
ficers to which regiment shall be composed by the governor and
council.
2. And be it enacted, That the companies thus formed into a re-
giment, shall be attached to the ninth brigade, Maryland militia,
and be subject to all the provisions of the militia laws of this state.

Passed Feb.
26, 1825.

Death of
Sheriff, &c.
returns to be
made.

CHAPTER 202.
An additional supplement to an act entitled, An act relating to Sheriff's an 1
for other purposes, passed at December session eighteen hundred and
thirteen, chapter one hundred and two.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in case any sheriff, coroner or elisor, within this state, hath made
or shall make sale of any goods and chattels, lands or tenements
in virtue of a writ or writs of fieri facias or venditioni exponas to
him directed and delivered for that purpose, and hath died or shall
die, without having made and entered on said writ or writs of fieri
facias or venditioni exponas, the necessary and legal return, stating
the proceedings which have been thereon had; it shall and may
be lawful for the court to which the said writ or writs may or shall
have been returnable, on the application of the purchaser or purcha-
sers, his, her or their legal representatives, and on his, her or their
producing to the court satisfactory proof, that the sale was legally
and fairly made by the said sheriff, coroner or elisor, to cause said
proof to be entered of record, 'and such proof when so entered,