EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 399.
AN ACT to amend Article 8 of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Assignment of Choses in Action," by adding
thereto certain sections, to follow Section 10 of said
Article, and to be known as Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17 and 18.

CHAP. 399

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 8 of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Assignment of Choses in Action," be and the same is
hereby amended by adding thereto certain sections, to follow
Section 10 of said Article, to be known as Sections 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, and to read as follows :
Section 11. No assignment of wages or salary shall be

New section
added.

valid so as to vest in the assignee any beneficial interest, either
at law or in equity, unless such assignment be in writing,
signed by the assignor and acknowledged in person by him
or her before a justice of the peace in and for the city or
county, as the case may be, in which the assignor resides,
and entered on the same day by said justice of the peace
upon his docket; and unless further, within three days from
the execution and acknowledgment of said assignment a true
and complete copy thereof, together with the certificates of
its, acknowledgment, be served upon the person, firm or cor-
poration by whom said wages or salary are due or to become
due, in the same manner that the summons in chancery
is now required by law to be served; provided, however,
that no assignment of wages or salary by a married person
shall be valid unless the same is also executed and acknowl-
edged as above by the assignor's wife or husband, as the
case may be.
Section 12. That proof of said service, as provided for

When assign-
ment of
wages are
valid.

in the preceding section, shall be by an admission thereof
in writing by the person, firm or corporation, his, their or
its agent on the original assignment, which admission of
service shall also be entered by said justice of the peace
upon his docket within two days thereafter.

Proof of
service.

Section 13. That in addition to said acknowledgment to
be made by said assignor, he or she, as the case may be,
shall make affidavit that he or she has not paid, and will
not, directly or indirectly, pay more than the legal rate of

Affidavit to be
made.