HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

affirmation may be made by any one of them,
or if all the plaintiffs be absent from the
State at the time of the bringing of said suit,
or if the plaintiff be a corporation, the said
affidavit or affirmation may be made by any
agent of plaintiff or plaintiffs, or any of them,
who will make further oath or affirmation
that he has personal knowledge of the matters
therein stated; and the said affirmation or
affidavit may be made before any of the per-
sons who may take an affidavit or affirmation
to authorize the issuing of a foreign attach-
ment, and may be certified in the same manner.

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172. When any judgment by default shall
be entered under any of the preceding sec-
tions, the Court may assess the damages on
proof thereof, without empaneling a jury to
do so.

173. Bills of exception may be signed in any
cause pending in any of said Courts, at any
time within thirty days from the rendition of

Court may
assess dam-
ages.

the verdict of the jury or the findings of the
Court upon the issues of fact in said cause,
but not thereafter, unless the time for signing
said bill of exception shall have been previ-
ously extended by order of Court or by consent
of parties, but nothing herein shall prevent
either party from requiring the bills of excep-
tion to be signed before verdict.

174. Any action taken or order passed by
any of said Courts in relation to any judg-
ment rendered by it, if taken or passed within
thirty days after the entry of such judgment,

Bills of ex-
ception.

or upon a motion or application made to it
within said thirty days, shall have the same
effect and force as it would have had under
the practice heretofore existing in said Court,
if taken or passed during the term, or upon a
motion or application made during the term
at which said judgment was entered, and no
more, but any such action taken or order
passed after the expiration of thirty days

Court may
pass order 30
days after
judgment.