HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

dant was returned summoned, as now provided
by law, subject to such rules as the Court may
prescribe as aforesaid.

SEC. 54 G. In any suit where the cause of ac-
tion is a contract, whether in writing or not,
or whether expressed or implied, the plaintiff,
if affidavit or affirmation be made as herein-
after stated, shall be entitled to judgment, to
be entered by the Court or the Clerk thereof,
on the rule day or the first day of the term

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next succeeding the rule day, or the term to
which the defendant shall have been returned
summoned, although the defendant may have
pleaded, unless such plea contains a good de-
fence, and unless the defendant, or some one in
his behalf shall, under oath or affirmation, state
that every plea so pleaded by the defendant is
true, and shall further state what amount of
the plaintiff's demand, if anything, is admitted
to be due or owing, and what amount is dis-
puted; and if the copartnership or incorpora-
tion of any of the parties to the suit, shall be
alleged in the declaration, and the affidavit
filed" therewith and hereinafter provided, or
if there shall be filed with the declaration in
said cause, any paper purporting to be signed
by any defendant therein, the fact of such al-
leged copartnership or incorporation, and the
genuineness of such signature, shall be deemed

Judgment.

to be admitted for the purposes of said cause, un-
less the said affidavit shall further state that the
affiant knows, or has good reason to believe, such
allegation, of copartnership or incorporation
to be untrue, or that such signature was not writ-
ten by or by the authority of the person whose
signature it purports to be; in case any part of
the debt or damages claimed be admitted to be
due, the plaintiff shall be entitled to an entry of
judgment therefor as aforesaid with costs, in
full discharge to the action; provided, the
amount so admitted to be due shall not be
below the jurisdiction of the Court, or the
defendant may pay such admitted part into
the Court, and thereupon such proceedings

In case of
copartnership.