484 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

office shall be part of the sentence or judgment pronounced upon
him by the said court. No constable shall deputize any person
to act in the service of any writ whatever for or in his behalf.

LANDLORD AND TENANT.

1888, ch. 487.

634. In all cases of any demise or agreement for rental, ex-
press or implied, verbal or written, hereafter to be made, of lands
or tenements, whether real estate or chattels real, within the
limits of the city of Baltimore, for a less term than twelve calen-
dar months, the remedy of distress for rent due is taken away
and altogether superseded; and no person under any demise or
agreement of rental for a less term than twelve calendar months-
shall have any other or greater remedy for the recovery of rent
due than is had for the recovery of any ordinary debt, except as
provided in this sub-title of this article.

Ibid.

635. Whenever the tenant under any such demise or agree-
ment of rental, express or implied, verbal or written, of lands or
tenements, whether real estate or chattels real, within the limits of
the city of Baltimore, for a less term than twelve calendar months,
shall fail to pay the rent thereunder when due and payable, it
shall be lawful for the lessor to have again and repossess the
premises so rented.

Ibid.

636. Whenever any lessor shall desire to have again and re-
possess any premises to which he is entitled under the provisions,
of the preceding section, he or his duly qualified agent or attorney
shall make his written complaint, under oath, before any justice
of the peace of the city of Baltimore, describing therein in gen-
eral terms the property sought to be had again and repossessed as
aforesaid, and setting forth the name of the tenant to whom the
same is rented (with the names of the assignees or under-tenants
in said premises, should there be such known to said lessor) with
the amount of rent thereon due and unpaid, and praying, by
warrant, to have again and repossess the premises accordingly
and it shall thereupon be the duty of said justice of the peace