JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 93

CHAPTER 58.

AN ACT to repeal the seventh section of the fifty-
seventh article of the Code of Public General Laws
of this State, title "Limitation of Actions" and

* to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION \. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That section seven of article fifty -seven of the Code of Public General Laws, title " Limitation of actions" be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so that the same shall read as follows:	Repealed and re-enacted.
7. Whenever any person, may die indebted, and his interest in real estate may be liable to be pro- ceeded against for the payment of his debts by reason of the insufficiency of his personal estate, the opera- tion of this article both at law and in equity, shall be suspended in relation to the heirs and devises of such debtor for the period of eighteen months from the death of such decedent, and where any debts of such person so dying indebted have been or may be paid by his executor, or administrator, and the real estate of such decedent is proceeded against for the payment of his debts, the operation of this article both, at law and in equity, shall be suspended in relation to the heirs and devises of such deceased debtor, as to the claims so paid until the lapse of eighteen months after the filing of said bill.	Suspended,
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 9, 1876.	In force.