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Claims petition. 1839 32 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0326 and id is 1 raw text is: 32 De. 1839. istered, shall, to all intents and purposes, be binding and effectual in law. Special liu;l SEc. 21. Any Magistrate is authorized and required to give, Releases of In- heritence; Re- on proper affidavit, an order for reasonable buil, in any action nunciations of Dowes* Appli. wherein bail may be proper, but not of course at the time of cion unde commencing, or during the pendency thereof, in any Court of Acts. Common Pleas, in the District where such Magistrate resides, and may discharge the other duties, and exercise the other powers of Commissioner of Special Bail; may take releases of inheritance and renunciations of dower, and may hear and determine any ap. plication for the benefit of the Prison Bounds Acts, agreeably to their provisions, in cases where the acting Clerk of the Court for that District, cannot hear and determine such application, either on account of interest, sickness, c,.. absence, and in no other cases whatever. Estrays. SEc. 22. Every Magistrate, before whom an estray shall be returned, shall cause the same to be appraised, on oath, by three proper persons in the neighborhood, who shall certify their ap- praisement, together with an accurate description of the color, size, age, brands, and marks of said estray, under their hands, whereupon the said Magistrate shall enter the same at large on his toll book; and shall, within ten days thereafter, send a du. plicate of the said certificate to the Clerk of the Court of the Dis- trict in which such estray shall be taken up, and at the same time, shall cause the same to be advertized, together with notice where the said estray is to be found: if an estray other than a horse or mule, at three or more public places in the District, one of which shall be on the Court House door, for two months; and if a horse or mule, by advertizing at the same places, and in the nearest gazette once a month for four months ; and if no owner shall appear and prove his property within the time directed for advertizing, such Magistrate shall cause the same to be sold at public outcry, after publicly advertizing the same for ten days, on a credit of six months, except the costs, to be paid in cash, requiring of the pur. chaser note and good surety for the purchase money, which shall be at once assigned by the said Magistrate to the Commissioners of Roads, for the Battalion, Regiment, or Parish, within which the estray was taken up, which said Magistrate shall, at the same time, return an account of sales and costs to the Clerk of said District. Tenants hold- SEc. 23. On the determination of any lease, in writing or by ing over land.parol, of any lands and tenements within the State, when the lessee shall hold over thereafter, any two Magistrates of the Dis.

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