JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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any premium note or other evidence of debt as aforesaid, as
defendant or defendants, and the said attorney or attorneys in
behalf of said company as plaintiff, and against the maker or
makers of any premium note or other evidence of debt as
aforesaid, as defendant or defendants, and the said attorney or
attorneys in behalf of said defendant or defendants, shall be
further authorized to waive stay of execution and ail right to
homestead or other exemption now or hereafter to be allowed
or reserved execution debtors, any statute of this State to the
contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. 542.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the judges and
clerks for the respective counties and the Superior Court of
Baltimore City are authorized to enter up judgments, with
costs for the interest, or any assessment of any notes or other
evidence of debt given in consideration of premium for insur-
ance in the said company, without reference to the amount
claimed or assessed ; provided, nothing in this Act shall be
taken to prevent the said company from bringing suit before
any justice of the peace of this State for any claim of interest
or assessment not exceeding $100 on note or other evidence of
debt as aforesaid ; and any defendant or defendants, in any
judgment rendered thereon by any justice of the peace, shall
also be deemed to have waived all right to exemption ; and be
it further provided, that a certificate or statement for any
interest or assessment on any note or other evidence of debt
given in consideration of a policy of insurance or any other
transaction or proceeding of said company, attested by its
secretary, and the common seal, shall be prima facie evidence
before any justice of the peace or Court of Law or Equity,
and no member of said corporation, not being in his individual
capacity a party to any suit, shall be incompetent as a witness
in any such cause on account of his being a member thereof.

Authority to
enter up
Judgments,
with costs for
interest.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted. That the said company
shall have full power and authority to rescind or revoke any
policy of insurance by them issued whenever they shall deem
it for the interest of said company so to do.

May revoke
policy of
Insurance.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That said company shall
have and is hereby invested with power to make such by-laws,
not in conflict with this Act and not contrary to law, as it
may see fit to regulate the business of said company, and the
terms and conditions upon which persons may become mem-
bers thereof and for what causes members may be expelled,
and they may provide for forfeiture and avoidance of all
policies obtained by fraud or by false warranties- or represen-
tations or for breach of any terms, conditions or agreements
set forth in the policy, and said by-laws shall be binding upon
all members.

May make
by-laws not
in conflict
with this
Act, etc,