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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 475.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section five of

article eighteen of the Code of Public General

Laws, entitled " Clerks of Courts," as re-enacted

by an act passed at January session, eighteen

hundred and sixty-five, chapter five.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section five of article eighteen

of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled

" Clerks of Courts," as re-enacted at the January

Repealed and
re-enacted.

session of the General Assembly of Maryland,

eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be and the same

is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-

ments to read as follows :

SEC. 5. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the clerk of the courts of this

Issue decree.

State may issue an execution on judgment or de-

cree at any time after the rendition thereof, di-

rected to the sheriff of another county, whether

a return of nulla bona to a writ of execution, issued

to the sheriff of the county or city wherein the

said judgment or decree was rendered, has been

made or not, which writ of execution issued and

directed to the sheriff of another county shall be

Where re-

made returnable to the Circuit Court of the coun-

turnable.

ty to which it may be sent, and if sent to the city

of Baltimore, returnable to the Superior Court of

said city ; and there shall be sent therewith by the

clerk issuing the same, to the clerk of the court

to which said writ shall be returnable, a copy of

the docket entries in the case, upon which the

court may proceed on said execution, by renewal

or otherwise, in the same manner as if said execu-

tion had issued on a judgment or decree rendered

in said court, and on attachments on judgment or

decree shall be regarded as an execution, the mean-

ing of this section; provided, nevertheless, that

no execution or attachment on judgment shall be

issued and directed to another county; if there

has been no return of nulla bona until the plaintiff

or plaintiffs, or his or their attorney of record,