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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

for the fourth district of St. Mary's county, for the sum of
twenty dollars and eighty cents, being the amount over-paid
by him into the treasury for the year 1890 and 1891, the same
having received the recommendation of the treasury officials.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 3d, 1894.

CHAPTER 184.

AN ACT to repeal aud re-enact with amendments, Section
169 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"City of Baltimore," sub-title "Courts."

Eepeal.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section one hundred and sixty-nine of article
four of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City of Balti-
more," sub title "Courts," be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

On judgment
by default,
court may
assess dam-
ages.

169. When any judgment by default shall be entered under
any of the preceding sections, the court may assess the dam-
ages on proof thereof without empannelling a jury to do so,
unless the defendant shall have filed a motion in writing before
the entry of such default for a jury trial, and shall have
stated in such motion how much of the plaintiff's demand is
disputed, and how much thereof, if any, is admitted by said
defendant to be due, and in such case the plaintiff may forth-
with have judgment entered up for the amount so admitted, as
provided in the preceding section.

Approved April 3d, 1894.