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ATTACHMENTS. [ART. 67

tachments on
original process
for fraud

ceed one hundred dollars, upon the party applying for the same
making before the justice the affidavit, and exhibiting the proofs and
vouchers necessary to authorize an attachment to be issued from the
Circuit Court in such cases, and giving bond, with security to be ap-
proved by said justice, in double the sum alleged to be due, and con-
ditioned as is provided in section 37, of this article, except such
changes of language as may be necessary to make the same appli-
cable to a proceeding before a justice of the peace, and such attach-
ment shall be returnable before the justice who issued it, on a day
certain, to be named therein, not less than twenty nor more than
thirty days from the date of issuing it, and the plaintiff shall give

Proceedings

notice of the issuing of such attachment, in the same manner as in
case of attachments before a justice against non-resident or abscond-
ing debtors, and a writ of summons shall also be issued with such
attachment, as is usual in cases of debt before a justice, and the pro-
ceedings on such attachment shall conform, as near as practicable,
to the practice and proceedings, under writs of attachment, against
non-resident or absconding debtors issued by a justice of the peace.

WAGES OR HIRE.

1874, c 45.
Attachment
against wages or
hire of laborer
or employee
31 Md 39, 47
Md 203

53. No attachments upon warrant, upon judgment, upon two
non ests, or upon original process, shall issue against, be le\ied on,
or affect the wages or hire of any laborer, or employee, not actually
due at the date of such attachment in the hands of the employers,
whether such employers be individuals or corporations, unless the
debt or judgment upon which such attachment is issued shall, ex-
clusive of cost, exceed the sum of one hundred dollars; and the

Amount
exempt.

sum of one hundred dollars of such wages or hire due to any laborer
or employee, by any employer or corporation, shall always be exempt
from attachment by any process whatever; provided, that this sec-
tion and nothing herein contained shall apply to or in any manner
affect any existing debt, contract, note, or judgment, nor prevent
any person or body corporate from issuing an attachment on any
judgment, now obtained or which may hereafter he obtained on any
note, debt, or contract existing at the time of the passage of this

Not to apply to
non-resident
defendants

act; and provided, that nothing in this act shall apply to non-resi-
dent defendants.

1874, c 230
Wages or hire
due non-resi-
dents.

54. The wages or hire of any person or persons, not residing in
this State, shall be subject to attachment upon judgment, upon war-
rant, or upon two non ests, in the same manner and to no larger
extent than the wages or hire of any person or persons, resident in
this State.

ATTACHMENTS IN ACTIONS FOR ILLEGAL ARREST, FALSE IMPRISON-
MENT, ETC.

1861, c 77, s 1
Attachments in
cases of illegal
arrest, etc

55. In all actions for illegal arrest, false imprisonment, or vio-
lation of the twenty-third, twenty sixth, thirty-first, and thirty-