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1782 613 (1782)

handle is hein.ssl/ssct0311 and id is 1 raw text is: Wl TS Ivat L A y . Regulating Courts. ACTS AND LAWS7 Made and paffed by the General Court or Afembly of the Govern-. or aid Cbmpany of the State of Uornielicit, holden at Harford, in faid State, (by fpecial Order of his Excellency the Governor.) on the fecond TVzirfday of Oflober, A4nn6 Donini, 17 82 An A for regulating the refpe6tive Courts ifn rendering judgmient for the. recovery, of Debts' on Contra&s in fome fpecial Cafes, and dired- ing the Mode Of Proceedings. therein. W EE E 4 S Mbe Bills o) Crdii of thefe Ui ted States, emitted by Order of Congres, have greatly depreciated in their 'alue, occafi- oned by fote unforefeen Events taking Place..,, '.Ind whereas fundry Debtors hate eheavoured to difch age their )'ut Debts by tendering a I min the Bills aforefaid in their depreciated State, of left Value than the value of the Sun in which they became indebted, which has been refufed by the Creditor ; by reafon whereof great Difputes have arifen, and the oe Party ir the other liable to fuffer Injuflice by a flriBt con- firuaion of the Laws of this State rilative theretb. Therefore, purfuant to'a Refolve df thefe United Statei, paffed ii congress on the twentieth of March, 1780 E it Enafled by the Gobernor; Council, and Reprefentttives iM General Court alembled, and by the Authority of thefame, That in all A&,ons brought before any of the Superiour or County Courts in this State (either by original Wriq Appeal, or Writ of Error), for the recovery of any Debt due by Bond, Note, or Book Account, contra~ted before or on the fifeventh Day of 7anuary, 1780, and where the Defendant in fuch (A&ion has, between the firft Day of September, 1777, and the i8th tDay of March, 1780, made a tendry of a Sum in Continental Bills bf Credit, to the Creditor or Creditors in fatisfaffion of the Debt demanded, and the Creditor refufed the fame; then and in every fuch Cafe, the Court before whom fuch Action may be brought, are hireby authorized to direft fuch Caufe to be heard and deter. .minzed by referense thereof to indifferent Perfons, to be mutually Pzeamiblo. brouiht for the recovery ofdtebts con- tracEd onor b~fore 7th Jan x'go. Where tend- ry h~is barn mad e,-- to, be deterli- nei by txd rules of e- quity. . . . . _ J j f i,

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