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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1834.

ings on their part, or that a receiver should be appointed, until
further order of the court, to take charge of the collection of fees
or taxes, or claims, mentioned in the said original act, or to per-
form the duties of the trustee or trustees, whom the court is
empowered, by virtue of said act, to appoint, in the premises, or
in any wise to act for the security of the plaintiff, in the matter
of said bill or petition, it shall and may be lawful for the court
to order the issuing of injunction as aforesaid, and to appoint a

Appoint
receiver.

receiver, with the authority as aforesaid, until further order of
the court, and with such further authority as, under the circum-
stances, it shall seem to the court necessary to confer ; and to
order delivery to the receiver, of books, papers, and vouchers, as
allowed and prescribed in said original act, in respect of a
trustee or trustees aforesaid ; and to pass all orders necessary, in
the view of the court in the premises, for effecting the ends and
objects of such injunction and receivership.

Chancery
court em-
powered,

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the court of chancery may
exercise all the powers conferred by the said original act, or this
act, upon the county court, sitting as courts of equity.

CHAPTER 79.

*1715, ch.
40.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act directing the manner
of Suing out Attachments in this Province, and limiting the extent of
them.

Averment
as to resi-
dence may
be dis-
pensed with

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That no attachment that shall hereafter be issued by virtue of
the act to which this is a supplement or of any of the supplements
thereto, shall fail, be dismissed, quashed, or defeated because of
any defect in any averment, as to the citizenship or residence
or inhabitancy of the plaintiff or plaintiffs or any of them, or
because of any omission altogether of averment in that respect,
in the affidavit for .such attachment, or in any act, or any part of
the proceedings preliminary to such issuing of attachment; Pro-

If residence
be proved.

vided, that if any trial take place it be proved at the trial in such
attachment case, that the plaintiff or plaintiffs or any of them at
the time of issuing said attachment was or were a resident or
inhabitant or residents or inhabitants of one of the United States
of America, or of a district or territory thereof.

Attach-
ments
against non-
residents.

SEC, 2. And be it enacted, That in any cases of attachments
that shall hereafter be issued by virtue of the act to which this is
a supplement, or of any of the supplements thereto, against any
person or persons not residing in this state, such attachments
shad not be dissolved unless the defendant or defendants in
such cases, or some person for such defendant or defendants
shall enter into bond with good security to be approved by the
court, to satisfy any judgment that shall be recovered in such