JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1826.

the said levy court, stock of the said company, to the amount of
the expenses incurred by the levy court aforesaid.
2. And be it enacted. That it shall be lawful for the United
States and the state of Maryland to become stockholders in the
said company.

CHAP. 193

State may become
stockholder

3. And be it enacted, That if the said company shall not
within ten years after the passing of this act, complete the said
road? it shall be lawful lor the legislature of this state to resume
all the rights, privileges and liberties, granted by this supple-
ment to said company,

If road is not com-

pleted in ten
years, legislature
to resume rghts
&c

CHAP. CXCIV.
A Supplement to the Act, entitled, An act for regulating the mode of staving
Executions, and for repealing the Acts of Assembly therein mentioned.

WHEREAS many justices of the peace within this slate have
riot written out in the very words, and pursued the precise form,
now required by law, in the taking of supersedes, for super-
seding judgments and decrees obtained in the courts of law and
equity in this state, whereby plaintiffs may lose, for mere mat-
ter of form, their just claims intended to be secured by such
supersedeas; Therefore,

Passed Mar 6, 1827
Preamble

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all eases where judgments have been, or may hereafter
be obtained, in any court of law in this state, pr where any de-
cree has been or may hereafter be obtained in the court of chan-
cery, or any county court sitting as a court of equity, and the
same has been, or may hereafter be, superseded by way of
confession of judgment under the act of assembly, entitled. An
act for regulating the mode of staying execution and for re-
pealing the acts of assembly therein mentioned, passed at No-
vember session one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one,
and the supplements thereto, and such confession of judgment,
by way pf supersedeas, is not in the precise form and language
required by said act, and its supplements,, nor for the amount
for which the judgment may have been rendered, but only for
the sum actually due, and costs, the same shall be as valid and
binding as if the said supersedeas had been taken in the words
and form required by said law; provided that the form of
the confession of judgment, by way of sypersedeasja said law,
has been or shall be substantially complied with.

Judgments or de-
crees superseded

and notice precise

form required, to
be valid

2. And be it enacted, That the time mentioned in any such
confession of judgment, although not so expressed, or if other-
wise expressed, shall be computed, if entered into within two
months from the time of the rendition of the judgment or de-
cree, six months from the time of such confession, and »ot six
months from the date of the judgment; and any such confes-
sioa of judgment shall be as binding upon the principal, and
thB sureties therein, as if any stich confession of judgment, by
v^ay of supersedeas, had been in the manner directed by Jaw*

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tered ioto In the manner prescribed by law, shall be a Hen on
$fe real estate of the persons therein named, in tfoe same man-
ner as judgments rendered in any court of law, from thg tijui
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