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LAWS OF MARYLAND

to article twenty-six of the Code of Public General

Laws, section nine, title corporations, to read as

follows :

SEC. 9. SUB-SEC. 1. Any municipal corporation,

in this State, against which there is a judgment in

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any court of law in this State, shall have power to

evy.

levy a sum of money upon the assessable property of

such municipality sufficient to pay such judgments.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 368.

AN ACT for the relief of the sureties on the official

bond of Edwin W. Duvall, formerly Sheriff of

Anne Arundel county.

WHEREAS, at the April term, eighteen hundred and

seventy, of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel

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county, certain recognizances of Elizabeth Brown

and Catharine Weaver, charged with larceny, was

forfeited by said court; and

WHEREAS, said sureties are liable for other and

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larger sums of money due and owing by said Duvall,

as sheriff aforesaid; and

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WHEREAS, judgment has been entered against said

sheriff' and securities, and execution levied on the

property of said sureties; and

WHEREAS, a sale of their said property will be at-

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tended with ruinous consequences to them; there-

fore,

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of

Released.

Maryland, That the sureties on the official bond of

the said Edwin W. Duvall, formerly Sheriff of Anne

Arundel county be, and they are hereby released,