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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1811.

CHAPTER 174.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for regulating the mode of
staying Execution, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and

*Ch. 67.

ninety-one.*
See notes to the original law, ante page 274.

Stay of
execution
on confes-
sed judg-
ments.

Se it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, no execution against the
body or goods of any citizen of this state, shall issue upon any
judgment confessed before any justice of the peace with stay of
execution for six months thereafter, according to the provisions
of the act to which this is a supplement, when such judgment
has been assigned by the person or persons obtaining the same,
unless the said justice of the peace shall be satisfied by evidence
that a demand has been made by the person or persons holding
such judgment under such assignment, or by some person or
persons duly authorized on his behalf, upon the principal debtor

Proviso.

in the said judgment, for the amount of the same, at or since
the time when the same became payable ; Provided always ,
that such demand need not be made on such principal debtor if
he shall have removed since such confession of judgment, from
his then place of residence.

CHAPTER 189.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act concerning the Chancery
.Court.

Respon-
dents to
have all the
benefits and
advantages
now given
to com-
plainants.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
every respondent in any case now depending, or which may
hereafter be brought in the chancery court of this state, shall
have all the benefits and advantages which are given to com-
plainants by the first section of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and

* Ch. 55.

six.*
CHAPTER 200.

*17S6, ch.
45.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to direct
Descents.
Repealed by 1820, ch. 191.

CHAPTER 204.

*1805, ch.
97.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act to reduce into one the
several acts of Assembly respecting Elections, and to regulate said
Elections.
See notes to the original law, ante page 513.

Penalty on
persons
giving any
reward to
secure
votes.

SEC. 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any candidate, or any other person or persons whatever,
shall at any time before, or on the day of any election, to be
held in virtue of the law to which this is a supplement, give or