HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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the same with effect shall entitle the defend-
ant therein to his costs and a judgment dis-
charging the lien claimed, unless the Court for
good cause shown permits the plaintiff in such
scire facias to dismiss the same without preju-
dice to the further assertion of his lien; and
in granting such permission the Court may im-

May issue ex-
ecution.

pose such conditions on the plaintiff as it may
deem proper; and whatever judgment may be
entered on any scire facias shall be noted on
the record of such claim in the Clerk's office
of said Court.

37. In any case in which a lien claim shall
have been filed against any building, and in
which no proceedings towards enforcing the
same are pending, the Superior Court of Balti-
more city or the Circuit Court for the county,
as the case may be, may, on the motion or

Condition.

petition of any person interested in the prop-
erty affected, require the lien claimant to ap-
pear in Court by a given day, and proceed to
the trial and final disposition of the issues in-
volved in such claim in the same manner as if a
scire facias had been issued and returned at
his instance and under the same penalties as
the defaults as are provided in section thirty-
five of this article.

May require
to appear.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1886.

Effective.