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for summoning jurors to the Superior Court, and two dollars a day for
each day he or his deputy shall attend upon such inquisition; and such
expenses shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, ex-
cept in cases of objection to the confirmation of the inquisition, when the
costs in said court, may be awarded in the discretion of the court.

MORTGAGES.

1833, ch. 181. 1S36, ch. 249. P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 782. P. L. L. (188S),
Art. 4, sec. 692. 1890. ch. 197.

720. In all cases of conveyances of lands or hereditaments or of chat-
tels real, or goods and chattels personal, situate in the said city, wherein
the mortgagor shall declare his assent to the passing of a decree for the
sale of the same, it shall be lawful for the mortgagee or his assigns at
any time after filing the same to be recorded, to submit to either of the
Circuit Courts of Baltimore City the said conveyances or copies thereof,
under seal of the Superior Court; and the Circuit Court to which the
same is so submitted, may thereupon forthwith decree that the mortgaged
premises shall be sold at any one of the periods limited in said convey-
ances for the forfeiture of said mortgages or limited for a default of the
mortgagors, and on such terms of sale as to the said court may seem
proper, and shall appoint by said decree a trustee or trustees for making
such sale, and shall require bond and security for the performance of the
trust as is usual in cases of sales of mortgaged premises.

Eichelberger v. Harrison, 3 Md. ch. 39. Cronise v. Clark, 4 Mel. 403. Williams
v. Williams, 7 Gill, 302. Ing. T. Cromwell, 4 Md. 31. Gatchell v. Presstman, 5 Md.
161. Kauffman v. Walker, 9 Md. 229. Robertson v. Amer. Homestead Association,
10 Md. 397. Kenly v. Wierman, 18 Md. 302. Black T. Carroll, 24 Md. 252. Franz v.
Teutonia Bldg. Ass'n. 24 Md. 269. Brooks v. Hayes. 24 Md. 518. Seebold v. Lock-
ner, 30 Md. 133. Tome v. Merchants and Mechanics Bldg. Ass'n, 34 Md. 12. Heuis-
ler v. Xikum, 38 Md. 270. Shaefer v. Amicable P. L. & L. Co.. 47 Md. 126. Kerch-
ner v. Kemptoii, 47 Md. 568. Gustave Adolph Bldg. Ass'n v. Kratz, 55 Md. 394.
Abrahams v. Tappe, 60 Md. 317. Trayhem v. Colburn. 66 Md. 280. Bernstein v.
Hobelman. 70 Md. 29. Chilton v. Brooks, 71 Md. 445. Roberts v. Loyola Bldg.
Ass'n, 74 Md. 1. Haskie v. James. 75 Md. 568. Hughes v. Riggs, 84 Md. 505. Con-
naughton v. Bernard, 84 Md. 589. Knapp v. Anderson, 89 Md. 189. Owens v.
Graetzel, 146 Md. 361. Kushnick v. Bldg. & Loan Ass'n, 153 Md. 685.

mortgages; Powers of Circuit Court No. 2. Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore
City has power to pass an ex parte decree authorized by a mortgage executed prior
to the establishment of said court. Miller v. Gunkle, Daily Record, April 2, 1892.

Powers of Sale and Assent to Decree. The power of sale and assent to the,
passage of a decree contained in a mortgage, is a power coupled with an interest.
Easter v. Easter, Daily Record, January 23, 1897.

1833. ch. 181. 1880, ch. 216. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 693.

721. The trustee or trustees so appointed, after having given bond
with security, may, after the arrival of the period limited by the decree
for a sale, sell, agreeably to the terms of said decree, the mortgaged prop-
erty or any part thereof; the mortgagees, their executors, administrators
or assigns, if the mortgage claim shall have been assigned before such
sale, or their duly constituted agent or attorney, after the arrival of the
period aforesaid, verifying by their oath a statement of the amount of
said mortgage claim remaining due, before the Judge of said court or