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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1827.

bond of said trustee, under the band and seal of the clerk of the
court, to which the application of said insolvent may be re-
turnable, shall be taken and received in evidence, as fully as
if the original bond were produced.

Final dis-
charge in
case no in-
terrogato-
ries are
filed.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That if at the time of the final
hearing of his or their application in the county court, to which
his or their petition may be returnable, no interrogatories or
allegations shall be filed, or if filed, shall have been satisfacto-
rily answered, or decided in favour of such applicant or appli-
cants, that then it shall be the duty of the said court to extend
to the said applicant or applicants a final discharge, without
the assent of any of his or their creditors.

Voluntary
confession
of judgment
declared an
undue
preference.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the voluntary confession
of any judgment, in favour of any creditor or creditors, secu-
rity or securities, made by any person or persons, with a view,
or under an expectation of being or becoming an insolvent
debtor, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, an un-
due and improper preference to such creditor or creditors,
security or securities, within the true intent and meaning or"
the ninth section of the act, to which this is a further additional
supplement.

Property
not return-
ed, subject
to execution

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all the property of the peti-
tioner, real, personal and mixed, not mentioned and included
in his schedule, be subject to execution and attachment, in the
same manner his property was subjected prior to the time of
his petitioning for the benefit of the insolvent laws of this state.

Acts incon-
sistent here-
with repeal*
ed. Balti-
more city
and county
exempt.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That all such acts, and parts of
acts of assembly, as may be inconsistent with the provisions of
this act, be and the same are hereby repealed : Provided, that
nothing* in this act contained, shall be construed to extend to
the city and county of Baltimore.

CHAPTER 85.
A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT for the recovery of Small Debts out of
Court, and to repeal the Acts of Assembly therein mentioned.
See 1791, ch. 68, and notes thereto, ante page 277.

County
courts em-
powered.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the judges of the several county courts within this state, shall
and may hold plea in said courts, of any debt or damage what-

Proviso.

soever ; Provided, it shall appear upon the record that the debt
or damage really existing at the time qf the commencement of
the action, exceeded fifty dollars : And provided also, that the
provisions of this act shall be construed to extend only to cases
of debt or damage existing in or growing out of contract. •