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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1820.

proceedings shall be had on the application of the securities or
security as are directed by the first section of this act.

Any judge
may grant
further
time until
meeting of
court, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That until the next term of the
county court in any county of this state, after the passage of
this act, any judge of said court, upon the application of any of
the parties above mentioned for the benefit of the provisions
herein before contained, may pass an order granting the same
to said applicant, to be in force until the next term of the court
of the proper county, which order, before any proceedings are
had under the same, shall be deposited with the clerk of said
county.

CHAPTER 80.
AN ACT, entitled a further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for
regulating the mode of Staying Executions, and for other purposes.
SEC. 1. Authorized justices of the peace to issue execution on judgment
superseded under 1819, ch. 162, which was of a temporary character.
SEC. 2. Relates to their compensation.

Executors,
&c. may
supersede
and stay
execution.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That all executors and adminis-
trators may supersede and stay execution, issued against the
goods and chattels, rights and credits, of their testators or intes-
tates respectively, in the same manner as if the said executions
had issued against them in their own right, accordingto the
provisions of the act to which this is a supplement ; and the
form of the supersedeas to be used in such case shall be as
nearly similar to the form prescribed in the said act as the cir-
cumstances of the case will admit; Provided always , that such
supersedeas shall render the executors or administrators so
superseding, liable to be proceeded against on the said superse-
deas, in the same manner as if the debt so superseded had been
his, her, or their own personal debt.

Superse-
deas may
be taken
before one
justice.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in cases where, by said act,
a supersedeas is required to be taken before two justices, one
shall hereafter be sufficient therefor.

CHAPTER 108.

AN ACT respecting the assent of Creditors to the release of Debtors under
the Insolvent Laws of this State.
SEO. 1, 2. Are rendered useless by the act of 1827, ch. 70, which autho-
rizes a discharge of an insolvent debtor without the assent of creditors.

Part of 4th
section of
an act
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That so much of the fourth
section of the act, entitled, a further additional supplement to
the act, entitled, an act for the relief of sundry insolvent
debtors, passed at November session eighteen hundred and
twelve, as requires an insolvent debtor to pay over or convey
to his trustee or trustees sufficient in amount to pay fifty per
cent, of his debts at the time of his second application, and
also so much of the said section as requires the insolvent