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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1838.

sel, the master or mistress, or other owner or owners thereof,

Owner may

shall and may recover the value of such slave or slaves, from

recover the
value.

the president, directors and company of said rail road, or the

owners and captain of said steamboat, tow-boat, or other vessel,

as the case may be, by action of debt in his, her or their name

or names, in any of the courts of law in this state.

Exception.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the provisions of the first

section of this act, shall not be construed to extend to any slave

travelling in company with his, or their master or mistress, his,

her, or their agent, or as the servant or attendant of any white

person or persons, bona fide employed for that purpose.

CHAPTER 380.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to establish Magistrates'

Courts in the several Counties of this State, and to prescribe their

Jurisdiction.

Authorised

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

to issue at-
tachments.

That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be

lawful for the several magistrates' courts of this state, organized

under the act to which this is a supplement, to issue attachment

by way of execution, on all judgments obtained before them, or

before any justice of the peace, in the same manner and under

the same rules as are now observed by the several county courts

of this state.

Fees

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That for every such issue, the

therefor.

district court, out of which it proceeds, shall be entitled to the

Dorchester

same fees as the said courts are now allowed by law for issuing

county

other writs; Provided, that this law shall have no force or effect

excepted.

in Dorchester county.

Judgments

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act con-

not to act
as lien.

tained, shall be so construed as to make any judgment, ren-
dered by any district court, or by any justice of the peace, a

lien on lands, tenements or hereditaments, otherwise than now

provided for by law.

Those is-

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all attachments hereafter

sued here-
after re-
turnable.

issued in virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, shall
be made returnable to the second term of the court after such

issue.

Writs of

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That writs of fieri facias, or capias

capias, &c.

ad satisfaciendum, shall be made returnable at such term of the

returnable.

court thereafter, not exceeding the third term, as may be pre-

scribed by the court, or justice, issuing such writs.

CHAPTER 381.

Certificates-

AH ACT to provide for the authenticating of Acts of Assembly.

of clerks of
S. and H.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

D.

from and after the passage of this act, and while the general