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before justices of the peace as aforesaid, but shall be considered
only equal as lien to them.

6. The securities provided for as to mortgage of personal prop-
erty, and also the immunity of the lien of judgments in the sec-
ond section of the original act referred to, shall apply to all cases
covered by this act, and this act shall not apply to debts con-
tracted after the tenth day of May next.

7. The period allowed by this act, and said act of eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, chapter seventeen, shall not be computed
as a portion of the three years within which an execution may
issue on any judgment or decree, to which the stay of execution,
provided for by this act or the said act of eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, chapter seventeen, is applicable.

8. Where any execution had been levied upon personal prop-
erty at the time when said act of eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
chapter seventeen, went into effect, and sale was stayed under
such execution by said act, the officer serving said execution
shall not be held responsible for said property, unless he shall
have taken and held said property in his actual possession.

9. Nothing in this act or the act of which this is amendatory
shall apply to judgments or decrees, rendered in favour of the
State or in any way affect, limit, or restrain attachments on war-
rant, or judgment against the lands, goods, and chattels, rights,
and credits of non-residents or absconding debtors^ as practiced
under existing laws.

10. Nothing contained in this act nor in the said act of which
this is amendatory, shall be construed to prevent the sale of any
real or personal estate under any decree or order heretofore
passed, or that may be hereafter passed upon a creditor's bill,
where all the parties to the cause wherein such decree or order
has been or may be passed, shall agree to such sale, by consent
in writing, to be signed by said parties, or their attorney, or at-
torneys, and in case any of said parties may be infants, by the
guardian, or guardians of such infants, and to be filed in such
cause.