HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 125
CHAPTER 84.

AX ACT to add two new sections to Article 2 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Anne
Arundel County", sub-title "Circuit Court", said new sec-
tions to be known as Sections 188A and 1S8B, and to follow
immediately after Section 188 of said Article, providing for
the payment of certain clerk's and sheriff's costs before tak-
ing actions at law in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County in certain cases, and providing penalties for the
violation thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That two new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Circuit
Court", said new sections to be known as Sections 188A and
188B, to follow immediately after Section 188 of said Article,
and to read as follows:

188A. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County shall not docket suit or issue process in any action-at-
law until the person or corporation seeking to docket said
proceeding shall first pay to said Clerk Two Dollars and Fifty
Cents ($2. 50) to defray the Clerk's costs for the docketing o"f
said proceeding and Seventy-Five Cents ($. 75) additional for
each defendant named in said proceeding to be paid to the
Sheriff of Anne Arundel County for his services in serving the
writ of summons of the defendant or defendants when
actually summoned.

If the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall docket any proceed-
ing on the law side thereof without first complying with the
provisions of this Act, he shall forfeit and pay to said Court
the amount of costs due as a result of said failure upon his
part.

188B. Any person entitled to commence an action-at-law in
the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, may, upon the
Order of said Court, commence said action without being
required to pre-pay the costs mentioned in Section 188A, upon
filing in said Court a statement under oath in writing, that
because of his poverty he is unable to pay the said costs, and
that he believes that he is entitled to the redress he seeks in
such action-at-law, and setting forth briefly the nature of his
alleged cause of action; provided, however, that any wilful
false swearing in any oath or affidavit under the provisions of
this section shall be punishable as perjury under the provisions
of the criminal law now or hereafter in force in Maryland.