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SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That no debtor applying for the benefit of the said act, and the
act supplementary thereto, shall be precluded from the benefit
thereof for and on account of such debtor having at any time
lost more than one hundred dollars by gaming at one time,
unless such losing shall have happened within the space of
three years next before the application of such debtor for the
benefit of the same.
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Debtor not
to be pre-
cluded from
benefit of
act who
may have
lost more
than $100
by gaming
at any one
time.
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SEC. 3. And, whereas by the twenty-first and last section of
the original law to which this is a supplement, any debtor not
named in the said original law, who is or hereafter may be in
actual confinement, and who applies for the benefit of that law
under the provisions contained in the aforesaid section, is placed
in a very different situation from that of a debtor named in the
said law who should be in confinement, inasmuch as the former
must apply to the court of his county, which is only in session
twice a year, and is not permitted to apply to a single judge out
of term time, and must also give two months previous notice of
his intended application; therefore, Be it enacted, That if any
debtor who shall petition in virtue of the said original act and
the supplement thereto, shall be imprisoned at the time of exhi-
biting his petition, it shall be lawful for the county court, or any
judge thereof, to order the sheriff, or other officer, in whose cus-
tody he shall be, to bring him or her before such court or judge,
at a certain time in the said order to be appointed, for the pur-
pose of taking the oath, or affirmation, in the said original act
prescribed to be taken by an insolvent debtor, and the said
sheriff, or other officer, shall obey the said order, and shall be
entitled to a preference, after a discharge of all liens on the said
debtor's estate, to all other creditors, in the payment of his
account against the said debtor for legal fees of imprisonment,
and his reasonable expenses in carrying the said debtor to the
county court, or any judge thereof, in obedience to the order as
aforesaid, any thing in the said original act or the supplement
thereto notwithstanding ; and the court, or any judge thereof,
may direct that the body of such debtor shall be discharged
from imprisonment, and appoint a time when such debtor shall
appear before the county court, to atiswer interrogatories which
his creditors may propose to him, on not less than three months
notice, as by the said original act is provided, any thing in the
said original act, or the supplement thereto, to the contrary not-
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Debtor
imprisoned
at time of
petitioning,
may be
brought
before
county
court, or
any judge
thereof, &c.
and dis-
charged
from im-
prisonment.
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withstanding ; Provided, that such discharge from imprison-
ment shall not operate as a discharge of any of the debts of the
said imprisoned debtor ; And provided, that the said imprisoned
debtor, at the time of his discharge, if required by the county
court, or any judge thereof, shall enter into a bond, with such
penalty and security as the county court, or any judge thereof,
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Not to
operate as
ft discharge
of any other
Debtor, if
required, to
give bond,
&c.
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