ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIBE, GOVERNOR.

663

nizances, statutes merchant or of the staple, or other specialty, for

the space of six years after the removal of such disability; and

coverture, on the part of any plaintiff, shall not be considered a
disability within the meaning of any statute of limitations in force

in this State.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-

Effective.

three.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 549.

AN ACT to add another section to article nine, of the Code of

Public General Laws, title " Attachments," sub-title, " Several

Attachments," to be known as " Section Forty-Four A."

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the following section be added to the Code of Public General

Laws of Maryland, title " Attachments," sub-title " Several At-

To add.

tachments," and that the same be known as " Section Forty-Four

A," to read as follows :

44 A. A writ of attachment may be served upon any person by

way of garnishment wherever he may be found, either by the sheriff

of the jurisdiction where said person may be, or by the sheriff of
the jurisdiction where the writ issues; when a writ of attachment

is served upon any one outside of the locality of his place of busi-

ness or residence, the short note shall be set up at the court house

Service of

door of the county or city where the writ is served by the officer

writ.

serving the same, and upon the return of the writ a duplicate

short note shall be sent by the clerk of the court where the writ

issues to the sheriff of that city or county to be set up by him at

the court house door of said city or county, and the service of any

writ and the posting of any short note wherever a writ of attach-

ment may have been or shall be served, and the short note set up

in manner as herein provided shall be valid, and said writs of at-

tachment shall be returned to the courts whence they are issued

as other writs are required to be returned.

2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Effective

Approved April 8, 1890.