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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1826.

CHAPTER 178.
AN ACT to regulate the manner of giving Public Notice in cases required
by Law.

Publication
of notices.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in all cases hereafter when it shall be necessary, or be the
duty of any court, or of the chancellor, or any judge, justice,
commissioner or commissioners, auditor or auditors, acting
under authority of law, to order or direct the publication of any
notice, or other advertisement, in one or more newspapers, the
said chancellor, court, judge, justice, commissioner or commis-
sioners, auditor or auditors, shall direct the place or places in
which such notice or advertisement shall be published, the
number of papers in which it shall be inserted, and the number
of insertions in each paper, but shall not name such paper or
papers in such order of publication, but leave to the party, at
whose expense such notice or advertisement is to be published,
to select the paper or papers, in which the same shall be in-
serted, and to contract for the cost of such insertion and publi-
cation, any thing in any law, usage or rule, to the contrary

Proviso.

notwithstanding ; Provided always, that when such publication
shall be ordered to be made in the city of Baltimore, it shall
not be considered a compliance with such order, unless the
notice or advertisement shall be inserted in one or more of the
daily newspapers, as may be directed, published in said city.

CHAPTER 194.

*1791, ch.
67.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act for regulating the mode of
staying Executions, and for repealing the Acts of Assembly therein
mentioned.
See original law, and notes, ante page 274; 1834, ch. 126; and 1835,
ch. 201, 224.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, many justices of the peace within this state have
not written out in the very words, and pursued the precise
form, now required by law, in the taking of supersedeas, for
superseding judgments and decrees obtained in. the courts of
law and equity in this state, whereby plaintiffs may lose, for
mere matter of form, their just claims intended to be secured by
such supersedeas ; Therefore,

Judgments
or decrees
superseded
and not in
precise
form re-
quired to be
valid.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases where judgments have been, or may hereafter
be obtained, in any court of law in this stste, or where any
decree has been or may hereafter be obtained in the court of
chancery, or any county court sitting as a court of equity, and
the same has been, or may hereafter be, superseded by way of
confession of judgment under the act of assembly, entitled, an
act for regulating the mode of staying executions, and for re-
pealing the acts of assembly therein mentioned, passed at