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An Act regulating the mode of proceeding on attachments. 1822 14 (1822)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0005 and id is 1 raw text is: 14. AN ACT Fixing the place of the next session of the Legislative Council.- .Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council St. Augustinie. of the Territory of Florida, That, the next session of the Legislative Council shall be holden in the city of St Au- gustine, in the County of St. Johns. J. C. BRONAUGH, President of the Legislative Council. 4ifiroved 12th ./u Jugt 1822. ,WM. P. DUVAL, Governor of the Te 'itory of Fiorida. TEST, JOHN COPPINGER CONNOR, Clerk of the Legislative Council. AN ACT Writ issued on the oath of the plain- tiff. That the 6eferdaut is removing. Above 2D0 may be directed to she- rifl' collstablc, or coroner,rcturnable Levv on the Slaves &c. &c. Sunmon garnishee On oath. To g,'e bond and security. Regulating thie mode of proceeding on attachmpnlmts. I. lBe it enacted by the Governor and Legq/lative Coun- cil of the Territory of Florida, That, it shall- be lawful for any Judge or Justice of the Peace of the Territory, upon complaint made to him on oath that the defendant is justly indebted to him in the amount stated, and that he is remo- ving out of the Territory, or so absconds and conceals him- sell'that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon him, to grant an attachment against the estate of such debtor, or so much thereof as will he sufficient to satisfy the debt and costs of such complainant, which at- tachment, when the demand is above the sum of twenty dollars, may be directed to any sheriff, constable or coro- ner, and shall be returnable to the next term of the Circuit Court, fur the County in which it issued-and it shall be lawful for such officer to serve and levy any attachment upon the slaves, goods and chattels of'the party abscond- ing &c. wherever the same may be found, or in the hands of any person or persons, indebted to, or having effects of the party absconding, and to summon such garnishee, or garnishees, to appear at the next term olthe said Court, or before a justice of the peace, as the case may he; there to answer upon oath what he, she or they is indebted to such party, or what effects lie, she or they may have in their hands, or had at the time of serving such attachment, which heing returned executed, the Court may thereupon compel such garnishee to appear and answer as aforesaid. 2. Be it further enacted, That, every Judge, or Justice of the Pe'ace, before granting any attachment, shall take bond and sufficient security, of the party for whom the

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