LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1881.

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require, to be delivered by such sheriff or coroner to such de-
fendant or defendants, or left at his, her, or their place of abode,
ten days before the return day of the writ, and if it shall appear
by the return of such sheriff or coroner on such writ, that such
copies have been delivered or served as aforesaid, it shall be the
duty of the court, and they are required at the first term, upon
motion on behalf of the state, to compel such defendant or de-
fendants to proceed to trial the same term, and if such defendant
or defendants shall neglect or refuse to appear or plead forth-
with, to enter judgment in the name of the state against such
defendant or defendants for the debt claimed, with interest and
costs, and if the suit be on bond to enter judgment in the name
of the state, against such defendant or defendants for the pe-
nalty, to be released by the payment of such sum as shall have
been stated and signed by the treasurer, with interest thereon
till paid, and costs and execution shall thereupon issue as on
other judgments obtained in such courts, unless sufficient legal
cause be shewn why there should be a continuance to the next
term.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That hereafter no payment of any
money or debt due the state either in suit or on judgment shall
be valid and effectual, unless made to the treasurer, or to such
person as shall have been specially appointed and authorized
by him to receive the same, or unless made to such sheriff,
coroner or elisor, as may or shall be authorised to receive the
same by virtue of any execution or other judicial process
issued on such judgment to enforce the recovery or payment
thereof, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwith-
standing.

Payments
valid only
when made
to treasurer,
&c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all cases in the court of
appeals, in which the state is or may be a party, or interested,
shall in preference to other causes, be heard, tried and deter-
mined at the first, term to which the record shall have been
transmitted, unless legal cause of continuance shall appear or
be shewn.

Trials of
appeals-
preference.

CHAPTER 79,

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT* to amend the Lottery System.
See notes to 1821, ch. 232, ante page 777 ; and 1831, ch. 284.

»!817,ch.
154.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland^
That the commissioners of lotteries shall be, and they are
hereby authorized to grant, at any time hereafter, a license or
licenses, to any person or persons, to be in force for the term of
one year from the date of granting the same, to sell, not only
tickets in any scheme or schemes, of a lottery or lotteries, which
the said commissioners shall form and dispose of, or authorize,
for the benefit of the state, but also to sell tickets in any scheme

License to
sell foreign
tickets.