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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

		CHAPTER 661. AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections two, three and six of Article fif ty -seven of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Limitations of Actions," and to add a new Section to said Article, to come in after Section six, and to be designated as Section six A.
	Repeal.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That sections two, three and six of article fifty- seven of the Code of Public General Laws, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, and that
	New section.	a new section be and the same is hereby added to said article, to come in after section six, to be designated section six A, and to read, as to said respective sections, as follows : 2. If any person entitled to any of the actions mentioned
	Actions by persons under disability.	in the preceding section, shall be at the time such cause of action accrues within the age of one and twenty years, or non compos, he or she shall be at liberty to bring the said action within the respective times so limited, after the disability is removed, as other persons having no such disability might or should have done. 3. No bill, testamentary, administration or other bond (ex-
	W here debt is above 12 years' standing.	cept sheriffs' and constables' bonds), judgment, recognizance, statute merchant, or of the staple or other specialty whatsoever, except such as shall be taken for the use of the State, shall be good and pleadable, or admitted in evidence against any person in this State after the principal debtor and creditor have been both dead twelve years, or the debt or thing in action is above twelve years' standing, saving to all persons who shall be under the aforementioned impediments of infancy or insanity of mind the full benefit of all such bills, bonds, judgments, recognizances, statute merchant, or of the staple or other specialties, for the period of six years after the removal of such disability.
	Actions on sheriffs', coroners', and consta- bles' bonds	6. All actions on sheriffs', coroners' and constables' bonds shall be brought within five years after the date of such bonds, and not afterwards; but the State may sue on said bonds for "her own use at any time; and if any person entitled to suit on a sheriff's, coroner's or constable's bond shall be at the time of the accruing of any cause of action on such bond under the age of twenty-one years, or non compos mentis, he or she shall