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by the oath of the plaintiff or by other proof, that the notice
required above has been given.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 51, sec. 43. 1849, ch. 269, sec 2.

43. The plaintiff in an attachment, before execution on any
judgment of condemnation shall be issued, shall give bond to the
defendant in such penalty as the justice of the peace shall direct,
not less than double the amount of the judgment of condem-
nation, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the
said justice, and conditioned to make restitution of the property
so condemned, or the value thereof, and to pay such damages as
may be awarded to the defendant, if the defendant shall at any
time within twelve months and a day from the date of issuing the
attachment appear, either in person or by his agent, before the
justice issuing such attachment, or before some other justice of
the same county, and make it appear that the plaintiff has
satisfied the said debt, or show that it ought not to be paid, or
that the said defendant was not indebted to the plaintiff at the
time of issuing said attachment.

Ibid. sec. 44. 1824, ch. 74, sec. 2. 1849, ch 269, sec. 1.

44. A garnishee in whose hands any such attachment is laid,
shall have the same rights, and be subject to the same liabilities
as if such attachment had issued from the circuit court or the
superior court of Baltimore city, the court of common pleas of
Baltimore city or the Baltimore city court; but to avail himself
of his rights, he must appear at the return of the attachment;
and he shall not have the four days thereafter for his appearance
allowed in said courts.

1868, ch. 447.

45. Every justice of the peace may issue an attachment in any
of the cases mentioned in section 35 of article 9, where the sum
claimed shall not exceed 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 or the superior court
of Baltimore city, the court of common pleas of Baltimore city or
the Baltimore city court in such cases, and giving bond, with secur-
ity to be approved by said justice, in double the sum alleged to be