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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Passed Jan.
20, 1816.
Directors.
Election val-
id.
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CHAPTER 148.
A further supplement to an act entitled, an act to establish
a bank and incorporate a company under the name of the
Elkton Bank of Maryland.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the stockhold-
ers of said bank, to elect on the fourth Monday in May next,
and on the fourth Monday in May in each and every year
thereafter, in the way prescribed by the act to which this is a
further supplement, directors of said bank, and in case the said
stockholders shall neglect to make said election at the time
therein before stated, it shall and may be lawful for the direc-
tors previously elected, and who having acted as such, to hold
their seats until a new election shall take place, which shall be
done as soon alter the annual day of election as the stockhold-
ers can be conveniently convened by public notice.
AND WHEREAS It appears uncertain whether the elec-
tions heretofore held for directors of the Elkton Bank of Mary-
land were authorised by law; Therefore,
2. BE IT ENACTED, That the several elections of di-
rectors held by the stockholders of said bank are hereby made
valid and effectual in law; and their acts are hereby made as
valid and effectual in law as if they had been legally elected.
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Passed Jan.
25, 1816.
Process not
being return-
ed sheriff may
be amerced—
judgment.
Courts may
issue warrants
&c. to officers
of other coun-
ties— penalty
on neglect to
execute--
judgments.
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CHAPTER 149.
An act relative to the administration of justice.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That whenever any process shall be issued from any
county court directed to the sheriff, coroner or other officer of
another county, and the sheriff, coroner or other officer to
whom the some shall be directed, shall neglect to make due re-
turn thereof to the court, to which such process may be made
returnable, it shall and may be lawful for such court on mo-
tion, and on proof of the delivery of such process to such she-
riff, coroner or other officer, to amerce such sheriff, coroner or
other officer in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, and
to enter up judgment against such sheriff coroner or other offi-
cer for the amercement so imposed in the name of the state,
but for the use and benefit of the party aggrieved by the neglect
of the said sheriff, coroner or other officer, which judgment
shall be as valid as any judgment rendered upon the verdict of
a jury, and the party for whose use and benefit the same shall
have been entered, may sue out execution as in other cases of
judgments rendered in the said court.
2. AMD BE IT ENACTED, That every county court to
which any action hath been or may be removed, shall have
full power and authority to issue a warrant of resurvey, order
or other process, to the sheriff, surveyor or other officer of the
county from which such action hath been or may be removed
or to the sheriff or other officer of any other county; and the
sheriff surveyor or other officer to whom any such warrant of
resurvey, order or process may be directed and delivered, shall
be bound to execute and obey the same in like manner as if
such warrant of resurvey order or other process had issued
from the county court of the county, from which such action
was removed, or of the county court of the county in which
such sheriff, surveyor or other officer may reside, and upon the
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