LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1835.

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four years from the date of said supersedeas, and the said defen-
dant or defendants, being security or securities as aforesaid, shall
be and they are hereby declared to be entitled to plead limita-

tions to the plaintiff's claim, should the said plaintiff cause a
scire facias to issue on said supersedeas after the expiration of
the period aforesaid.

Scire facias
barred.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That whenever a writ of replevin
shall be demanded from any one of the said district justices, ac-

Writ of
replevin.

cording to the jurisdiction herein given to the said district court,
it shall be the duty of such justice before he issues the same, to

Proceeding
In.

require and take from the party demanding such writ of replevin,
a bond to the party holding the property, with one or more
securities whom the said justice shall in his conscience believe
to be worth double the value of the specific articles of property

Bond
required.

intended to be replevied, witfi condition that the party so re-
plevyiug, his executor or administrator, shall well and truly
return the same property to the party out of whose hands the
property shall be so replevied, his executors, administrators or
assigns, in case a return of the same shall be adjudged by the
district court before whom the said writ of replevin shall be

Condition.

tried, and shall pay all damages and costs which may be
awarded by the said court; and upon the service of any such
writ of replevin, the goods and property shall be forthwith ap-
praised by two sworn appraisers, to whom the officers serving

Appraise-
ment.

the said writ are hereby authorized and required to administer
an oath or affirmation, that they will truly and impartially ap-
praise the same property at the sum or price they shall believe

Oath re-
quired.

it to be really worth, and if such appraisement shall exceed one
hundred dollars, all further proceedings shall cease, and the
plaintiff or party demanding the said writ shall be liable for, and
pay all costs and charges which may have accrued thereon,

Case of ex-
ceeding
$100.

and the said officer shall return the said writ to the said dis-
trict court, certifying thereon that the value of the property ex-
ceeds the jurisdiction of the said court, and he shall return the
schedule and appraisement of the property annexed to the said
writ and return.

Return
directed.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted. That whenever any person or
persons shall be indebted to any other person or persons in a
sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and the said creditor or
creditors shall make oath or affirmation before any one of the
said district justices, that the said debtor or debtors is or are
indebted to him, her or them, in the sum of not exceeding one
hundred dollars, and that the said debtor or debtors do not re-
side within the limits of the state of Maryland, or that he, she

Claim
against non-

residents,
&c.

or they, is or are credibly informed and verily believes that the
said debtor or debtors hath or have absconded from Bis, her or
their place of abode, whereby his, her or their creditors may be

Or persons
absconded.