FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

and such by-laws as may hereafter be legally adopted or
amended; and it shall always be understood and agreed
mutually that every person, persons or corporation, by signing
said note or other evidence of debt, in consideration as afore-
said, and the delivery to and acceptance by said company of
such note or evidence of debt, thereby authorizes irrevocably
any attorney or attorneys at law of the Circuit Court for any
county in this State, or of the Superior Court of Baltimore
city, to appear in such court as the directors may designate,
either during a term or recess of such court, and confess judg-
ment for any assessment by the directors on any said note,
or evidence of debt, or interest in advance on same, made,
estimated, determined or assessed in accordance with this act,
in favor of said company as plaintiff and against the maker or
makers of any premium note or other evidence of debt as
aforesaid as defendant or defendants; and the said attorney
or attorneys in behalf of said defendant or defendants shall
be further authorized to waive stay of execution and all right
to homestead or other exemption, now or hereafter to be
allowed or reserved execution debtors, any statute of this
State to the contrary notwithstanding.

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SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the judges and
clerks of the Circuit Courts for the respective counties, and the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, are authorized to enter up
judgment with the costs for interest, or any assessment on any
note or other evidence of debt given in consideration of pre-
mium for insurance in the said company, without reference to
the amount claimed or assessed; provided, that nothing in this
act shall be taken to prevent the said company from bringing
suit before any justice of the peace of this State, for any claim
of interest or assessment not exceeding $100, on note or other
evidence of debt as aforesaid; and any defendant or defend-
ants in any judgment rendered thereon by any justice of the
peace, shall also be deemed to have waived all right to exemp-
tion; and it is further provided, that a certificate or statement
for any interest or assessment, or any note or other evidence of
debt given in consideration of a policy of insurance, or of any
other transaction or proceeding of said company, attested by its
secretary and the common seal, shall be prima facie evidence
before any justice of the peace or court of law or equity; and
no member of said corporation, not being in his individual
capacity a party to any suit, shall be incompetent as a witness
in any such cause on account of his being a member thereof.

Authority of
fudges and
clerks of
court.