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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 913   View pdf image (33K)
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5 ANN. CAP. 9, ESCAPES. 913
to remain in the Custody of the Sheriff of such County, sub-
ject to the same Rules and Directions, and under the same Re-
strictions, Regulations and Penalties, and in such Manner and
Form in all and every Respect, as if the said Person or Per-
sons had been committed to the common Gaol of the County;
and if any Person or Persons so taken and committed, as afore-
said, shall at any Time make any Escape out of the said Prison
or Place to which he, she, or they be so committed, as aforesaid,
the Sheriff in whose Custody, he, she, or they was or were, shall
be answerable for such Escape to the Party grieved, in like
Manner as in the Case of any other Escape.
II. And to the Intent that the Benefit of the said former
Act may the more easily be had, in case the Person or Persons
escaping shall be seen in Places distant from the City of Lon-
don, Be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
to and for any one of the Judges of the respective Courts in
the said former Act mentioned, to grant like Warrant and
Warrants upon Oath in Writing, to be made before any Person
commissionated under the Seal of the same Court to take Affi-
davits in the Country, (the same Oath being first duly filed)
as by the said former Act he is impowered to do upon like Oath
made before himself.
III. And be it declared and enacted, That it is and shall be
lawful to apprehend and take, upon the Lord's Day, any Per-
son or Persons by Virtue of any Warrant or Warrants granted
in Pursuance of this or of the said former Act.
IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That if any Person or Persons is, are or shall be in Custody of
any Sheriff or other Officer, either by Virtue of the said Act,
or of this present Act, or otherwise, for not performing any
Decree of the high Court of Chancery, or Court of Exchequer,
whereby any Sum or Sums of Money is ordered or decreed to
be paid, and shall afterwards make any Escape from the said
Sheriff or other Officer, that then and in such Case the Person
and Persons, their Executors or Administrators to whom the
Money was to be paid by the said Decree, shall have the same
Remedy against the said Sheriff, as if such Person or Persons
so escaping had been in Custody upon an Execution at Law,
* and shall and may recover the several Sum and Sums of 674
Money decreed to be paid to him, her or them in and by such
Decree against such Sheriff or other Officer, together with his,

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