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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1805.

and also, that the plaintiff or plaintiffs, his, her or their execu-
tors or administrators, or his, her or their attorney at law, in the
ease of such amerciament as aforesaid, upon the return of any
writ, being rnesne process, offered or tendered to the said sheriff
or coroner, an assignment of the cause of action, when the
same cause of action shall arise on contract, whereupon the
original writ issued.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That it
shall and may be lawful for the sheriff or coroner who shall be
amerced as aforesaid, and unto whom any such cause of action,
arising on contract, shall be assigned as aforesaid, and who
shall have paid or satisfied the same, to the original plaintiff or
plaintiffs, his, her or their executors or administrators, or attor-
ney at law, to bring suit thereon for the recovery of the same,
under and by virtue of such assignment ; and that the defen-

Sheriff, &c.
may bring
suit, &c.

dant or defendants, his, her or their heirs, executors or adminis-
trators, shall have the same full advantage and benefit of defence
on such suit, to all intents and purposes, as he, she or they,
might have or be entitled unto upon a suit prosecuted in the
name of the original plaintiff or plaintiffs.

CHAPTER 110.
AN ACT for the relief of sundry Insolvent Debtors,
Supplements and other laws are, 1806, ch. 98; 1807, ch. 55, 150; 1808,
ch. 71 ; 1809, ch. 179; 1812, ch. 77; 1814, ch. 122; 1816, ch. 221 ; 1817,
ch. 183; 1819, ch. 84; 1820, ch. 108, 182, 186, 194; 1821, ch. 250;
1822, ch. 102; 1825, ch. 122, 205; 1827, ch. 70; 1828, ch. 63 ; 1829, ch.
31, 208; 1830, ch. 65, 125, 130; 1832, ch. 173, 203; 1834, ch. 92, 293, 309,
316, 336; 1835, ch. 235, 384; 1836, ch. 70, 97, 134, 293.
See Index, words 'Insolvent Debtor.'
SEC. 1. Contains the names of individuals who had petitioned the gene-
ral assembly for the benefit of special acts of insolvency, and the benefit of
this act was originally limited to them. By 1806, ch. 98, and 1809, ch. 179,
the benefits of this act were extended to any insolvent debtor who shall
have resided within the state two years next before his application.
A peculiar tribunal to take charge of insolvent petitioners, was created
for the city of Baltimore, by 1816, ch. 221. The provisions of this system
are so intimately blended with the general insolvent law, that it is deemed
most advisable to incorporate them with the 'General Public Law.'

Court, on
application
of debtor,
to direct
notice to
creditors,
£c.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That on application of either of the said debtors to the county
court of the county in which they severally reside, or to any
judge thereof in the case of the actual confinement of such
applicant, by petition in writing, offering to deliver to the use of
his creditors, all his property, real, personal or mixed, (the
necessary wearing apparel and bedding of himself and his
family excepted,) to which he is in any way entitled, a schedule
whereof, (on oath or affirmation, as the case may require,) to-
gether with a list of the creditors of the persons so applying