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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

cree shall at any time within twelve years from the date of the

judgment or decree, upon a suggestion supported by affidavit of

the death or marriage of any of said defendants, be entitled to have

an execution or attachment issued against the defendant still alive,

and such execution or attachment may be laid on any goods, chat-

tels, lands and tenements of any of said remaining defendants ;

provided, that at any time before the expiration of twelve years

from the date of any such judgment or decree, or in case of the
death or marriage of any defendant in the judgment, the plaintiff

Scire
facias.

shall have right to have a writ of scire facias to renew or revive the
same, and on judgments of justices of the peace duly recorded in
the clerk's office, such writ of scire facias may be issued out of the

superior court of Baltimore city, or the circuit court of the county,

as the case may be, as if said judgment had been originally rendered

by said court, and on all such judgments or decrees the plaintiff

may have more than one attachment or execution to be laid in the

hands of different persons, or levied on other property or effects

than that taken under the first, though the first be still outstand-

ing; provided, that but one satisfaction of the debt or demand

shall be made, and that it shall be in the discretion of the court m

all such cases, whether any costs, and if any, what amount of costs

shall be allowed on the subsequent attachments or other execu-

tions; the provisions of this section shall apply also to attach-

ments or executions directed to a county different from that where

the judgment or decree was rendered, or to or from the city of Bal-

timore.

Effective

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

the date of its passage.

Approved March 14, 1890.

CHAPTER 115.

AN ACT to legalize and make valid the act of the Westminster

savings institution, a tody corporate under the provisions of

the general law of the State of Maryland relating to corpora-

tions, in omitting to appoint a committee of five members thereof

to investigate its affairs and publish a report thereof once in

every twelve months, and to declare a dividend every six months

of the interest and profits of said institution.

WHEREAS, the Westminster savings institution incorporated.

under the provisions of the general law of this State relating to

Preamble

corporations, has omitted to appoint in every twelve months five

competent members of said corporation, a committee of examina-