1831.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 67.

Passed Feb. 6, 1833

An act to continue in force the acts of Assembly which would
expire with the present session.

Continued in force

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all such acts, or parts of acts, as would expire with the pre-
sent session of Assembly, be and the same are hereby con-
tinued to the last Monday of December next, and to the
end of the then session of Assembly.

CHAPTER 68.

Passed Feb. 6, 1832

A supplement to the act, entitled, An act to provide for the
collection of the Public Revenue, passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and twenty -nine, chapter ninety.

Powers duties and
authorities exten
ded to attorney
general.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the provisions and enactments of the original
act to which this is a supplement, in relation to the duties,
powers and authorities of any deputy Attorney General,
or other Attorney appointed in the collection of the reve-
nue, or of the debts due the state, be, and the same are
hereby extended to and vested in the Attorney General, in
such counties wherein he officiates, or shall officiate in
person, and wherein he hath or shall have no resident de-
puty, or other attorney appointed, as fully and effectually
as if he had have been named in the said original act, and
he is and shall be entitled and authorised to take and re-
ceive for such professional services in the collection of the
revenue and of the debts due the state, the same compen-
sation and in the same manner as is allowed by the said
original act to any deputy or other attorney in similar cases.

Process in suits
hereafter— prompt
trialls—judgement.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That in any suit or suits here-
after instituted against any defendant or defendants, for any
debt due the state, if the account of such debt or claim
stated and signed by the Treasurer, and the declaration
with notice in writing of an intended motion for trial or
judgment the first court, endorsed thereon, shall have been
filed in the office of the clerk of the county wherein such
defendant or defendants reside, it shall be the duty of such
clerk, and he is required to deliver copies thereof with the
writ, to the sheriff or coroner as the case may require, to
be delivered by such sheriff or coroner to such defendant
or defendants, or left at his, her, or their place of abode,