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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

four, chapter four hundred and eighty-three, title

" Revenue and Taxes," be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

137. All lands and tenements belonging to any

person indebted to this State, after the commence-

ment of a suit therefor against him, shall be liable

Shall be liable

to execution on any judgment or decree which may

to execution.

be rendered against him in such suit, in whosesoever

hands or possession the said lands or tenements may

be found; but where the debtor hath granted or

may hereafter grant any road, way or easement in

or over any lands liable as aforesaid the rights ac-

Shall not be
affected.

cruing through or by such grant, shall not be affec-
ted by the preceding provisions of this section; pro-
vided, however that all existing rights of the State

now vested shall not be in any way diminished or

released, except as herein provided.

In force.

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

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 238.

AN ACT to authorize a loan to relieve the treasury

from losses accruing from the failure of certain

sources of revenue; and, also, to authorize a sale

of certain bonds of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-

road Company, therein referred to.

Whereas losses have accrued to the revenues of

the State from the failure of the Susquehanna and

Tide Water Canal Companies to pay the interest on

Preamble.

the mortgages due the State, and from the failure of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to pay

any portion of the amount due the State from the

one-fifth of the receipts from passengers on its Wash-
ington Branch Road, and also from the failure to