1266 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 529

to be known as Sections 24A, 24B, 24C, 24D, 24E, 24F, and
24G, and to follow immediately after Section 24 of said Article
and to read as follows:

24A. In all cases of any demise or agreement for rental,
express or implied, verbal or written, hereafter to be made of
lands or tenements, whether real estate or chattels real, within
the State of Maryland, except in Prince George's County, for
less term than three calendar months, the remedy of distress
for rent due be and the same is hereby taken away and
altogether superseded.

24B. Whenever the tenant under any demise or agree-
ment of rental, express or implied, verbal or written, of lands
or tenements, whether real estate or chattels real within the
State of Maryland, shall fail to pay the rent thereunder when
due and payable, it shall be lawful for the lessor to have again
and repossess the premises so rented.

24C. Whenever any lessor shall desire to have again and
repossess any premises to which he is entitled under the provi-
sions of the preceding section, he or his duly qualified agent
or attorney, shall make his written complaint under oath or
affirmation, before any justice of the peace of the county or
city wherein such property is situated, and describing therein
in general terms the property sought to be had again and re-
possessed as aforesaid, and also setting forth the name of the
tenant to whom the same is rented, or his assignee or under
tenant or tenants, with the amount of rent thereon due and
unpaid; and praying by warrant to have again and repossess
the premises, together with judgment for the amount of rent
due and costs; and it shall thereupon be the duty of said jus-
tice of the peace forthwith to issue his summons, directed to
any constable of the county or city wherein such complaint
has been filed, and ordering him to notify said tenant, assignee
or under tenant forthwith to appear before the said justice of
the peace, at the trial to be held on the second day after the
filing of said complaint, to show cause why the prayer of said
lessor should not be granted as aforesaid, and the said con-
stable shall forthwith proceed to serve said summons upon
said tenant, assignee or under tenant in said premises, or upon
his or their known or authorized agent, but if for any reason,
neither said tenant, assignee or under tenant, nor his or their
agent can be found, then said constable shall affix an attested
copy of said summons conspicuously upon said premises, and
such affixing of said summons shall, for the purposes of this
sub-division of this Article, be deemed and construed a suffi-
cient service upon all persons whomsoever.