656 Assembly Proceedings, May 16-July 11, 1747.

Session Laws
Workmen to
be con-
tracted with
by the
Justice of
Anne-
Arundel
County
Court

they are hereby authorized and empowered to agree and contract
with any Workman or Workmen, to compleat and finish the neces-
sary Repairs of the said Goal, for any Sum not exceeding One
Hundred Pounds Current Money; which said Sum, so contracted
for with any Workman or Workmen, shall be raised, levied, and
assessed in Manner following, that is to say, One full Third Part of
the Sum contracted for as aforesaid, with the Sheriff's Salary of
Five per Centum included, shall be assessed by the Justices of Anne-
Arundel County, and they are hereby empowered and required to
assess the same at their next November Court, on the taxable In-
habitants of the County aforesaid; and the same when raised, to
apply to the Purpose aforesaid: And the other two Thirds of the
Sum contracted for as aforesaid, shall be allowed and inserted in the
Journal of Accounts, when the Work aforesaid shall be finished

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and compleated, and paid and discharged as other public Dues and
Payments are.

Sheriffs
directed to
whom to pay
the Money

And be it Enacted, That when the Sum so as aforesaid contracted
for, shall be assessed, levied, and collected, the several and respec-
tive Sheriffs within this Province, shall pay the same, or such Part
thereof as they shall respectively receive, to the Justices of Anne-
Arundel County aforesaid, or their Order, to be applied to the Pur-
pose aforesaid.

Justices to
lay their
Account
before the
Assembly

And be it further Enacted, That the Justices of Anne-Arundel
County aforesaid, shall be, and they are hereby required to lay be-
fore the next General Assembly which shall happen after the com-
pleating and finishing the Repairs aforesaid, a fair, full, clear and
distinct Account of their Agreement or Contract with such Work-
man or Workmen, and the Sum by them to be paid for such Repairs
and Amendments, in Order that an Allowance be made in the Jour-
nal, as is before directed.

Chapter
XXIII

An Act to prevent Evils arising from the Entering up Judgments
upon Bonds, commonly called Judgment-Bonds, to direct the
Manner of issuing Executions on Loan-Office Bonds, and to regu-
late certain Fees therein mentioned.

Preamble

Whereas it has been the Practice to take Bonds with Power con-
tained in the Condition of such Bonds, upon Non-Payment, to any
Attorneys practicing in any Court of Record within the Dominion
of Great-Britain, to confess Judgment, and thereupon, without any
previous Process, Judgments have not only been confessed in the
Provincial and County Courts of this Province, but also out of
Courts, before a single Magistrate, and Executions have issued
thereon, to the great Damage of many People, who, in case Capias
had issued, and they had Time to plead to such Bonds, many good
Reasons might have been pleaded against the same: For Preven-
tion of which Evils for the future, it is humbly prayed that it may
be Enacted;