FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 61.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article eighty-seven
of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Sheriffs," sub-
title "Service of Process, Civil and Criminal, and Proceed-
ings in Cases of Failure to make Due Return," to be desig-
nated as Section 15A.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That an additional section, as follows, shall be added to
article 87 of the Code of Public Gaberal Laws, title "Sheriffs,"
sub-title "Service of Process, Civil and Criminal, and Pro-
ceedings in Cases of Failure to make Due Returns," and to be
designated as 15 A.

New sertion.

15 A. Any Sheriff may make one or more returns of the
proceeds of sale under any fieri facias attachment or venditioni
exponas, where dispute is known to exist as to the distribution
of the proceeds of sale, to the Circuit Court of his county, or
to the court in Baltimore city out of which the process
issued, and the Court may ratify one of the Sheriff's returns, or
may reject all returns and remand same back to the Sheriff for
a further return; provided, that any one aggrieved by the
decision of the court in ratifying any return, may appeal to the
Court of Appeals as may now be done, from any final decree
or order in the nature of a final decree, from a Court of
Equity.

Returns of
proceeds of
sale by
sheriffs.

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

Approved March 7th, 1894.

Effective.

CHAPTER 62.

AN ACT to incorporate "The Maryland State Firemen's
Association."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That J. Roger McSherry, Charles T. Holloway,
Edward Israel, Edward S. Eichelberger, Edward Koontz, Ben-
jamin H. Blackston, Frank Spates, Thomas E. McCardell, E.
M. Mobley, G. A. Einwachter, William M. Crirnmins, Hiram

A body cor-
porate.