LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1832.

CHAPTER 307.
AN ACT to subject Slocks and Funded Property to Attachment and
Execution for Debt.
See 1715, ch. 40, ante page 21 ; 1834, ch. 79, 189, 305; 1835, ch. 201,
235; 1837. ch. 246.

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SEC. 1. Be it enacted \ by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be lawful for any person or persons or body cor-
porate, who shall have sued out of any court of law or equity,
in this state, any writ of fieri facias, or with* of attachment,
against the goods and chattels of any person or persons or body

Persons
suing out
writs of
fieri facias
or attach-
ment.
(*writ)

corporate, according to the laws of this state, to instruct the
sheriff or coroner or other officer, to whom such writ shall have
been directed to lay the same upon any interest which the de-
fendant or person or persons or body corporate, against whose
goods and chattels such writ shall have issued, may have or be
entitled to in the capital, or joint stock of any corporation or
corporations, or in the debt of any corporation or corporations,
transferable upon the books of such corporation or corporations.

May direct
the same to
be laid
upon any
interest
which de-
fendant has
in any joint
stock
company.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of any
sheriff or coroner, or other officer, to whom any such writ may
have been directed, upon being instructed to lay such attach-
ment or execution upon any of the property in the first section
mentioned, to deliver to the president or other chief officer of
every such corporation or leave at the banking room, office or
place of business, of every such corporation, a notice in writing,
directed to such corporation, or the chief officer thereof, setting
forth in substance; that by virtue of a writ or writs of attach-
ment, or fieri facias, issued out of court to him directed, he hath
seized ami taken all the interest of —— , in the capital stock of
such corporation (or in the debt of such corporation transfera-
ble on the books thereof) at the suit of —— ; and such sheriff or
coroner, or other officer, shall retain in his own hands and return
with the writ a copy of such notice, with a memorandum en-
dorsed thereon, of the time, place and manner of delivering the
said notice, and shall in his return refer to the said copy and
memorandum, and make them part of his return.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That at any time after the service
as aforesaid, of any such notice, such sheriff or coroner or other
officer, may require the president or any other officer, of any
corporation, upon which such notice may have been served, to
certify to him in writing, the number of shares of the capital
joint stock, of such corporation, and the amount of debt trans-
ferable on the books of such corporation which were standing
in the name of the person or persons, or body corporate, whose

Directions
for serving
such pro-
cess, and
making
return.

Sheriff may
require a
certificate
of the
number of
shares, Sec.

interest, in the joint stock or debt of such corporation is men-
tioned in such notice to have been seized or taken, at the time
of the service of such notice : and if any president or other

If officers
of, refuse to
give cer-
tificate.