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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

DEC. SESS
1814.

curity or satisfaction for the same, more than credit giv-
en to the best of their knowledge; or in rases where
others than the sheriffs or collectors themselves are au-
thorised to collect, shall make oath that it does not ap-
pear from any books, pipers accounts or writings of
such sheriff or collector that any part or parcel thereof
hath been received, nor any thing as seemly or satisfac-
tion for the same more than credit given.

Bond— notice
of collection.

&c.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid
Matthias Dashiell, James Grayless, Edward Wood,
William Clare, Benjamin Leitch, Robert Welch,
John Duhamel, Thomas W. Griffith and George Wash-
ington Thomas, before they or either of them derive
any benefit from or under this act, they shall respectively
lodge their sheriffs and collection books in the clerk's
office of the county of which they are severally sheriffs
or collectors, to be open for the inspection of all persons
interested in the same, without any cost or charge for the
same, and shall give public notice thereof by advertise-
ment to be set up at the court house door, and other pub-
lic places in the county, at least three weeks before any
collection shall be made by execution or distress

Allowances
for insolvents.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commission,
ers of the tax of the city and county of Baltimore, be
and they are hereby authorised to make allowances to
the said Thomas W. Griffith for all such sums as he
may have paid or be liable to pay for persons insol-
vent or removed out of the county, and return the some
to the levy court of said county in like manner as if such
allowances had been applied for in due time, the amount
of which the said court are hereby authorised to assess
in their next succeeding county levy.

Acts revived.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act of assem-
bly passed at November session eighteen hundred and
twelve, entitled " an act authorising William Merryman,
late sheriff and collector of Baltimore county to complete
his collection, and for other purposes" and also an act
entitled " an act for the benefit of Robert Gorsuch, late
Collector of Baltimore county," and the several powers
and authority thereby created and given, be and the same
are hereby revived and continued until the first day of

Proviso.

January, eighteen hundred and sixteen; Provided that
no execution or distress shall be made by the said Wil-
liam Merryman in virtue of the said first mentioned act,
unless an account in words at length of the fees or
public dues thereby demanded, shall have been delivered
to the person chargeable therewith, or left at his or her
place of abode, if resident of the county, if otherwise,
be set up at the door of the court house, at least thirty
days before such execution or distress.