316 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

his attestation and the seal of the corporation attached, to the re-
spective parties, as soon as may be after said award shall have
been rendered.

1870, ch. 136.

70. If the parties to any submission shall agree to do so they
may stipulate as part of said submission, in writing, that the
award of the committee rendered in conformity herewith and
with the by-laws, shall stand and avail as against them to the
same effect as a judgment or decree of a court of competent
jurisdiction, in which case either party desiring and entitled to
the enforcement of said award may file a copy of the same and
of the submission, attested under seal by the secretary of the
corporation, for record with the clerk of any court of this State
having jurisdiction of the subject-matter, and the person against
whom said enforcement is sought; and thereupon it shall be the
duty of said court, on motion or application, ex parte, at any
time after ten days from the filing of the award, to enter judg-
ment or decree thereupon, as upon a final award made by
referees under rule of court; upon which judgment or decree,
execution shall issue without stay. No matter affecting the title
of real estate, however, shall be submitted to or arbitrated by
the said committee under this or the preceding section, but the
committee may direct in its award the payment of the costs and
expenses of the arbitration, and the amount thereof shall be em-
braced as a principal sum in the judgment or decree to be
rendered; if awarded, to be paid by the party against whom
each judgment or decree is sought. No judgment or decree
rendered on any such award shall be liable to be stayed, except
upon allegation, under oath of the defendant, of manifest fraud
in the procurement or rendition of the award, or of a material
and substantial failure of the committee, specifically alleged and
set forth, to comply with the by-laws, or sections 68 or 69, in
the hearing and determination of the matters submitted; nor
shall any such judgment or decree be quashed, modified or
stricken out, except upon satisfactory proof of the matters so re-
quired to be so alleged; neither shall there be any appeal in any
case from the original judgment, order or decree, whereby, after
a hearing of the allegations and proofs as aforesaid, the said
original judgment or decree shall be maintained.