LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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time being or some one of the coroners (as the case may
be,) of the county in which the said lands or tenements
sold as aforesaid may lie, to execute a deed or convey-
ance to the purchaser or purchasers, his or their legal
representatives for the lands or tenements sold and pur-
chased as aforesaid, and such deed of conveyance being
acknowledged and recorded according to law shall be as
operative in law to every intent as if the sheriff, coroner
or elisor, who made or shall make such sale, had in his
life time executed the said deed of conveyance.

Dec. Sess.
1813.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any she-
riff, coroner or elisor shall die without having made sale
of the goods or chattels, lands or tenements seized and
taken under and in virtue of any writ of fieri facias as
aforesaid, his executor or administrator shall not charge,
exact or receive more than one half of the poundage fees

allowed by law; and that the sheriff or coroner who shall
make sale of any such goods or chattels, lands or tene-
ments under and in virtue of a writ of venditioni expo-
nas to him directed and delivered for that purpose as
herein before mentioned, shall not charge, exact or re-
ceive more than one half of the poundage fees as afore-
said.

Sale not be-
ing made at
sheriff, coro-
ner or elisor's
each, execu-
tor shall not
exact mote
than one half
poundage fees.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any she-
riff, coroner or elisor shall seize and take into his hands
or possession any goods or chattels, lands or tenements
under and in virtue of any writ of fieri facias to him di-
rected and delivered for that purpose, and such sheriff
coroner or elisor shall die before the return day of such
writ of fieri facias, or without having made any return of
such writ, then and in every such case the plaintiff or
plaintiffs in any such writ, or his her or their represen-
tative or attorney at law shall and may, if before the re-
turn day of such writ, obtain a duplicate thereof, or if af-
ter the return day obtain a new writ directed to the
then sheriff, or to some one of the coroners of the coun-
ty (as the case may require,) and such sheriff or coro-
ner may under such duplicate or new writ, and he hereby
is authorised and empowered to seize and take into his
hands or possession the same property, whether real or
personal, which may have been taken by the sheriff,
coroner or elisor so dying; and there shall be the same
proceedings thereon as in other cases of fieri facias;

Sheriff &c.
dying before
return day of
writs to him
directed, plain-
tiff may pro-
cure a dupli-
cate, &c.

Provided nevertheless, That the executors or adminis-
trators of the sheriff, coroner or elisor so dying shall not
charge, exact or receive any poundage or other fees for
services performed under any such fieri facias by the
sheriff, coroner or elisor so dying.

Proviso.

7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the due and le-
gal notice required to be given by any sheriff, coroner or,
elisor of the sale of any goods or chattels, lands or tene-
ments hereafter to be made by and under any writ of
fieri facias or venditioni exponas, shall, in the case of the
sale of goods or chattels, be by advertisement set up at

Legal notice
of sales.