JOHN H. STONE, Efquire, Governor.

1795.

IX. And be it enacted, That the faid agent be authorifed to fuperintend the
collection of all balances due on bonds taken for taxes due before the firft day of
January, feventeen hundred and eighty-three; and the faid agent fhall alfo fuper-
intend the collection of all balances due on bonds inftalled, or otherwife, for the
emiffion of paper money of feventeen hundred and fixty-nine and feventeen hun-
dred and feventy-three.

C H A P.
LXXXVII.

Agent to fu-
perintend the

collection,
&c.

X. And be it enacted, That no procefs fhall iffue againft any of the public
debtors, unlefs by the direction of the faid agent.

No procefs to
iffue, &c.

XL And be it enacted, That the faid agent fhall have power to fix fuch days
for the fale of property, taken by fieri facias at the full of the ftate, as he may
think proper, always taking care to give at leaft twenty days public notice there-
of; and the faid agent fhall alfo have power to fufpend the fales, from time to
time, as he may think moft to the advantage of the ftate.

Agent to fix
days, &c.

XII. And be it enacted, That the faid agent fhall pay into the treafury, in
fpecie, the amount of all fpecie by him received in the difcharge of the duties of
this act.

And pay in
fpecie, &c.

XIII. And be it enacted, That in all cafes where bonds fhall be taken in vir-
tue of this act, the bonds fhall be a lien on all the real property of the obligors
from the date thereof, or on fo much of the faid real property as the governor
and the council fhall think fufficient, to be particularly mentioned in a fchedule
to be annexed to the faid bond, in which cafe it fhall be a lien on the property
contained in fuch fchedule, and no more, fuch bond and fchedule to be lodged
with the treafurer of the weftern fhore.

Bonds to be a
lien, &c.

XIV. And be it enacted, That all bonds taken in virtue of this act fhall ex-
prefs the county in which the obligors refpectively refide, and the treafurer of the
weftern fhore fhall, within one month after he receives them refpectively, caufe
them, with the fchedule annexed to them, to be recorded in the office of the
clerk of the general court of the weftern fhore at the expence of the obligors ;
and a copy of the faid record, certified under the hand and official feal of the faid
clerk; fhall be as good evidence in any court of law or equity in this ftate as the
original bond would be if it was produced; and if any of the obligors in any
fuch bonds refide on the eaftern fhore, the faid treafurer fhall, within fix months
from the time he receives the fame refpectively, tranfmit to the clerk of the ge-
neral court of the eaftern fhore, in the fame manner as papers on public fervice
are tranfmitted, a copy of fuch bonds and fchedules, certified as aforefaid by the
clerk of the general court of the weftern fhore, to be recorded in the office of the
clerk of the general court of the eaftern fhore, at the expence of the obligors,
and in fuch cafe a copy of the faid record, certified as aforefaid by the faid clerk
of the general court of the eaftern fhore, fhall be good evidence as aforefaid.

And to ex-

prefs the
county, &c.

XV. And be it enacted, That the faid agent fhall render to the treafurer of
the weftern fhore diftinct quarterly accounts of his receipts of money, certificates
and bonds, in virtue of this act, and fhall immediately thereupon pay and deliver
the fame to the faid treafurer, who fhall, in his annual report to the general af-
fembly, ftate fully and particularly the money, certificates and bonds, by him
received from the faid agent, and the times when the fame were received and ac-
counted for.

Agent to ren-
der to the
treafurer dif-
tinct quarter-
ly accounts,
&c.

XVI. And be it enacted, That the faid agent fhall render a fair and full ac-
count of his feveral proceedings under the authority of this act to the general af-
fembly at their next feffion, and within the firft ten days after its commencement,
in which account fhall be fpecified, under diftinct heads, his own receipts, and
thofe of the treafurer, and of all transfers of ftock upon which he may be en-
titled to commiffions, and in which fhall alfo be contained a particular eftimate
of his commiffions, fhewing how and upon what the fame arofe due.

A fair account
to the general
affembly, &c.