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6. The Governor may, whenever he may deem it necessary,
employ two competent persons in the neighborhood of each of
the said armories, to make out and return to the Secretary of
State an accurate inventory of the arms, ammunition and other
public property therein, together with the condition and value
thereof, and the persons so employed shall be entitled to two
dollars for each day they shall be actually engaged in the dis-
charge of said duty.

7. The Armorers at Easton and Frederick shall each receive
an annual salary of three hundred dollars.

ARTICLE IX.
Assignment of Choses in Action.

SEC. 1. The assignee of any judgment, bond, specialty, or other
chose in action for the payment of money, or any legacy or
distributive share of the estate of a deceased person bona fide
entitled thereto by assignment in writing signed by the person
authorized to make the same, may, by virtue of such assign-
ment, maintain an action or issue an execution in his own name
against the debtor therein named, in the same manner as the
assignor might have done before the assignment.

2. The equitable assignee of a judgment may issue scire facias
in his own name, to revive the same without administration upon
the estate of the legal plaintiff.

3. Any defendant may make the same legal or equitable
defence as might or could have been had and maintained against
the assignor at the time of such assignment and before notice
thereof, and to the same extent.

4. Where the legal plaintiff in any suit entered for the use of
any person shall die before judgment, the person for whose use
the same may be entered, or his representative, may prosecute
the same to judgment as if the legal plaintiff had not died.

5. The surety in any bond or other obligation, for the pay-
ment of money or promissory note, or the endorser of any pro-