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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

such demurrer is not interposed for the purpose
of delay.
SEC. 40K. The clerk of said court shall have full

Power of clerk

power and authority to enter judgments by de-
fault under the rules of said court, according to
the provisions of section forty F, in the absence of
the judge, but shall not have authority to extend
such judgments or assess the damages, which
shall alone be done by the order and under the
direction of said court, or one of the judges
thereof.

Approved March 31, 1888.

Chapter 186.

AN ACT to repeal chapter two hundred and
twenty of the acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland passed at January session of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An
act to repeal, amend and re-enact the act, en-
titled 'An act to revise the Acts of Incorpora-
tion of the Town of Salisbury, in Somerset and
Worcester Counties ; chapter three hundred
and fifty-six of Public Local Laws for Som-
erset County, passed March the eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and to add
new sections thereto, ratifying and confirming
certain acts of the Commissioners of said
Town, and for other purposes, and the supple-
ments thereto, and to enact an act to Incor-
porate the Town of Salisbury, in Wicomico
County, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.' "

SECTION 1. And be it enacted by the General As-

What is re-
pealed, etc.

sembly of Maryland, That chapter two hundred
and twenty of the acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland passed at January session of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An act