LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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cutions and repealing the acts of Assembly therein men-
tioned and for other purposes, passed at May session
1813. Therefore,
2. BE IT ENACTED, that the justices aforesaid
respectively be, and they are hereby authorised and em-
powered to issue executions in the cases before mention-
ed after the first day of September next, on the applica-
tion of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, the said plaintiff or
plaintiffs, having first obtained a certified copy of the
judgments so rendered and superceded with the amount
of costs, from the office of the clerk of the county to
which such judgment and supercedeas were returned.

DEC. SESS.

1813.

Justices may
issue execu-
tions after said
day, plaintiff
having first
obtained a cer-
tified copy of
the judgment.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerks of the
several counties in this state shall receive as a
compensation for the certificate aforesaid, such a sum of
money as for services of a similar nature he is by law
now entitled to receive.

Clerk's con-
pensation for
certificates.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all the above
cases it shall he lawful for the clerks of the several
counties in this state to issue executions in the same man-
ner that is now usual and customary if the plaintiff or
plaintiffs require the same.

Executions
to be issued in
the usual way
if required.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no distress for
rent shall be made during the continuance of this act;
Provided, The tenant or tenants shall comply with the
provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and thirteen,
to which this is a further additional supplement.

CHAPTER 179.

Distress.

Proviso.

An ad authorising William Clare late collector of Cal-
vert county to complete his collection.
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the said William Clare be,
and he is hereby authorised to collect until the first day
of January eighteen hundred and fifteen, all balances
due him as collector of Calvert county for the year
eighteen hundred and twelve, in the same manner as he
could or might have done within the time limitted by

law.

Passed Jan.
31, 1814.

Time for col-
lection extend-
ed.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said William Clare before he proceeds to
execute or distrain the property of any person or per-
sons for taxes or public dues in virtue of this act. to de-
liver to such person or persons chargeable with the
same, at least thirty days previous to levying such exe-
cution or distress, an account written in words at full
length, of the taxes or public dues demanded of him,
her of them, with an affidavit annexed if required, that
he hath not received any part thereof, nor any thing alt
security or satisfaction for the same, more than credit
given to the best of his knowledge.

Distress.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said William

Collections.

books.