1604

BALTIMORE COUNTY.

cess in city causes on the common law side of said court, may
bear teste on the first day of the last city term, and be made
returnable on the first day of the city term next thereafter, and
any process may be tested and made returnable during the same
term that the court may direct.
Re-enacted by the acts above referred to.

Payment of
additional
fees, &c.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That there shall be paid to the
clerk of Baltimore county court, over and above all fees at pre-
sent demandable by law, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents
by the plaintiff in every city suit, at the time of issuing the
writ therein, and the sum of two dollars by each and every
complainant, on filing his bill on the equity side of said court,
and the sum of one dollar by each and every appellant in ap-
peals from the judgments of magistrates, on filing his petition,
which sums shall be respectively taxed as parts of the costs of
such plaintiff, complainant or appellant, as the case may be, and
the bond of said clerk shall be answerable therefor; and it shall
be the duty of said clerk to account for, and pay over quarterly,
all money by him so received, to the treasurer of the western
shore, retaining only a commission at the rate of five per cent,
for his trouble in receiving and paying the said money accord-
ing to this act.
See preceding note.
SEC. 9. Authorizes the court to continue causes then pending to the
terms created by this act.

Special
bail, &c.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That in all cases where any per-
son is or shall becorpe special bail for any defendant in any city
cause, such special bail, or his legal representatives, shall be
exonerated from all responsibility in such action, by producing
the body of such defendant in the said court, and surrendering
him at any time before a fiat shall be finally entered on a scire
facias against such bail, or representative, or during the term at
which such fiat shall be entered, and paying the costs of such
jsciro facias ; and no execution shall issue on any judgment of
condemnation in any case of attachment issued on the return
of one or more writs non est, to any city terms of the said
court} until six months after the rendition of such judgment,
unless the goods and chattels shall be perishable, in which case
execution may issue by special order of the court after inquiry
into the circumstances.
Re-enacted by the above acts.

Confession
of judg-
ment, &c.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That if any defendant or defen-
dants, against whom any judgment shall hereafter be rendered
in the said court, shall, within sixty days after the rendition of
such judgment, appear before the clerk of the said court, in his
office, and together with two other persons such as the said
clerk shall approve of, confess judgment to the same plaintiff or
plaintiffs, or the survivor or survivors of two or more plaintiffs,