GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ GOVERNOR.

1831.

said tenant, with any person of the family of, or in the service

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or employ of said tenant, or if left with any, person occu-

pying, or inhabiting, or using the demised or let lands or

tenements, or if said tenant have no dwelling house or place

of business as aforesaid, in the city of Baltimore, or no fam-

ily in such dwelling house, or no person in service or em-

ploy aforesaid, then such notice shall be deemed duly serv-

ed, if set up on some conspicuous part of the demised or let

premises; and any notice shall be deemed sufficient and valid

as notice aforesaid from the lessor, that shall contain a di-

rection or request to the tenant, to quit, or leave, or go out

of, or give up, the said premises, without specifying any

Specificating dis-

term, period, time, or dates, whatsoever; and in like manner

pensed with.

a notice from the tenant to the lessor, signifying an intention

of quitting, leaving, going out of, or giving up, said premi-

ses, shall, without any specification as aforesaid, be deemed

Legal service of

sufficient and valid, as notice as aforesaid from the tenant.

notice from tenant

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful

Authority to file

for any lessor who shall seek to avail himself of, or who shall

interrogatories

have instituted, the proceeding aforesaid, allowed by said

act for recovery of possession as aforesaid, of the said de-

mised or let premises, to file with the justices or one of

them, before whom such proceeding shall be had, or shall

be intended to be had, any interrogatory or interrogatories

to be answered by the tenant touching the tenancy afore-

said, or notice aforesaid, or for any matter of evidence in

support of the pretensions of said lessor, in and about and

for such proceeding; and such interrogatory or interroga-

tories shall be answered in writing, on oath, by said tenant

For tenants to an-
swer on oath.

before the third day (excluding the day of service) after a

copy thereof shall have been served on said tenant; and such

Copy to be served

copy shall be held to be duly served, if served or dealt with

as is hereinbefore provided, respecting the services of the

notices aforesaid; and if the person alleged to be tenant as

On failing to ans-

aforesaid, shall, after such service, omit to answer as afore-

wer.

said, he or she shall be deemed and taken to be tenant as

Deemed as confes-

claimed and pretended by said lessor in said proceeding,

sion.

and to have had due notice as hereinbefore prescribed, and

to have confessed all such matters favorable to the said les-

sor's pretensions as shall be sought to be derived by such

interrogatory or interrogatories; Provided however, That

Proviso— time ex-

for cause shewn to the said justices or any one of them, the

tended.

time for answering as aforesaid, may by the said justices or

justice be enlarged, so, however, that the whole time for

such answering shall not exceed eight entire days from and

after, and exclusive of the said day of service.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That if in the proceed ing afore-

Case of verdict.

said, a verdict shall be rendered in favor of such lessor, the