JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 169

CHAPTER 112. AN ACT to repeal sections" five and seven of article ten of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled "attachments, " and re-enact the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That sections five and seven of article ten of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled "attachments, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:	Repealed and re-enacted.
SECTION 5. The affidavit required by the preceding section may be made before any justice of the peace or any judge of a court of law of this State, or before any judge of a court of record of the United States, or of any State, district, or territory of the United States, or before a commissioner appointed by the State to take acknowledgements of deeds, or before a notary public, or if out of the United States before a consul or vice-consul of the United States.	Affidavit may be made.
SECTION 7. The affidavit required by the preceding sections may be made by the creditor or one of them where there are more than one, or by the agent of the creditor or creditors, by the president, cashier or other officer of a corporation, by any executor or administrator, or where the attachment is to be issued in the name or in behalf of an infant by the guardian of such infant, or by the infant himself, or by the husband of a feme covert, or by the committee of a lunatic. Approved March 23, 1876.	By whom made.