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shall make and file with the clerk issuing the same
an affidavit that he or they are unable to discover,
in the county or city where the judgment or decree
has been obtained, property from which the same
can be realized; and provided further that no	Judgment or
judgment or decree shall be a lien upon real estate	decree not a lien.
situated in another county from that wherein the
said judgment or decree was obtained, or in the
city of Baltimore, except from the date of the en-
try of the copy of the docket entries by the clerk
of the court to which the said writ shall be re-
turnable.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1878.
CHAPTER 476.
AN ACT to authorize and empower the County
Commissioners of Howard county to issue bonds
to raise money to build a new jail in Howard
county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Howard county be and they are hereby authorized
and empowered, for the purpose of building a new jail in the said county, to issue bonds to an amount	Issue bonds to build new
not exceeding the sum of eight thousand dollars,	jail.
or so much thereof as may be necessary, in sums
not less than one hundred, nor more than one
thousand dollars, to be signed by the President of
the Board of said County Commissioners, and
countersigned by the clerk of said board, with the
corporate seal of said County Commissioners there-
to attached, said bonds to bear interest at the rate
of six per centum per annum, payable annually on
the first day of September of each and every year,