LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 207.

AN ACT to repeal, section 52 of Article 52 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title " Justices of the Peace," sub-title
" Supersedeas and Execution," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 52 of Article 52 of the Code of Public
General Laws, title " Justices of the Peace," sub title " Super-
sedeas and Execution," be, and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, to read as follows:

Repeal.

52. No execution shall issue upon any judgment or decree
obtained in any Circuit Court for any county of thie State, pro-
vided the defendant therein shall come before a justice of the
peace of the county where such judgment or decree was rendered
within two months after the rendition of such judgment or decree,
and, together with two other persons, such as the said justice
shall approve of, confess judgment for his debt and costs of
suit, adjudged or decreed, with stay of execution for six months
thereafter, which confession shall be made in manner and form
following — that is to say: " You, ———— , do confess judgment
to ———— , for the sum of ———— and costs, which were recov-
ered by the said ———— , against ———— , on the — —— day of
———— , in the ———— Court; the said ———— to be levied of
your goods and chattels, lands or tenements, for the use of the
said ———— , in case the said ———— shall not pay and satisfy to
the said ———— , so as aforesaid, recovered against him, with the
additional costs thereon, on the ———— day of ———— next,"
which confession shall be signed by the justice before whom
the same is made, and forthwith returned to the clerk of the
court in which the judgment or decree was rendered, who
shall record the same; if the judgment was rendered in the
Court of Appeals, the confession aforesaid may be made before
a justice of the peace in the county where the defendant resides;
provided, however, that no such confession of judgment shall
operate as a supersedeas of or delay the issuing of an execution
upon any judgment or decree rendered by any of the Circuit
Courts or the Court of Appeals of this State, unless the same
be approved, both as to form and the sufficiency of the security
by the clerk of the court where the judgment or decree intended
to be superseded was rendered. This section shall not apply
to the city of Baltimore; and it shall not be lawful for the
justices of the peace in said city to take snpersedeas of any

When execu-
tion upon
judgment
shall not
issue