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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1830.

Law to be
published.

SEC. 5. And bo it enacted, That the governor and council
shall be, and they are hereby authorized and requested, to cause
this act to be published once a week for six: weeks in one news-
paper in each of the counties in which a newspaper is printed
in this state,

CHAPTER 165.

*1829,ch.
51.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to authorize Equitable
Assignees to sue in their own Names.

Assignee
entitled to
legacy, &c.
may sustain
an action,
&c.

SEC. 1, Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any assignee or assignees, bona fide entitled to any legacy
or distributive share of the estate of a deceased person, may by
virtue of such assignment, sue and maintain an action or actions,
execution or executions, in any court of law or equity in this
state, in the same manner as the assignor or assignors might or
could have done before such assignment.

May issue
scire facias,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That equitable assignees of judg-
ments may issue scire facias in their own name to revive the
same, without administration being granted upon the estate of
the legal plaintiff or plaintiffs \ and in all suits entered for the
use of any person, where the legal plaintiff shall die before judg-
ment, the person for whose use the same may be entered, or his
representative, shall have power to prosecute the same to judg-
ment as if the legal plaintiff had not died.

Defendants
may make
equitable
defence &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any defendant or defendants
may make the same legal or equitable defence as might or could
have been had and maintained against the assignor or assignors
at the time of such assignment, and to the same extent.

CHAPTER 171.

AN ACT to provide for enforcing the Collection of Penalties incurred
under existing Resolutions of this State.

Penalties,
how to be
recovered.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all penalties incurred by any civil officer under any existing
resolution of this state, shall hereafter be recoverable in the
court of the county in which the defaulting officer may reside,
by suit on the official bond of said officer; and that it shall be
the duty of the attorney-general, or the attorney acting for the
state in the proper county, upon official notice of any such de-
fault, to prosecute for the recovery of the same.

CHAPTER 184.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT of December session 1827, chapter
117, entitled, an Act to regulate the issuing of Licenses to Traders,
Keepers of Ordinaries, and others.
See note to the original law, ante page 928.

Section
repealed.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
so much of the seventh section of the original act to which this