ELIHU E JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
PUBLIC DEBT.

For the payment of the interest on the public

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debt of the state, including the cost of exchange
remittance and commissions for so much thereof
as is payable in London, five hundred and
seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much there-
of as may be necessary.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer

Payment of
interest on
public debt.

of the state shall, on the warrant of the comp-
troller, disburse the said sums of money herein
appropriated, for the objects and purposes herein
specified, to or upon the order of the person or
persons, or bodies politic or corporate, entitled
to receive the same.

Treasurer
shall disburse.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect on and after the first day of October,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 483.

AN ACT to add an additional section to article
forty-nine, section eleven, of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws, title "Joint Obligations
and Joint Tenancy," to be known as section
eleven A.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Effective.

sembly of Maryland, That an additional section
be added to article forty-nine, section eleven,
of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Joint Obligations and Joint Tenancy," to be
known as section eleven A, to read as follows :
HA. In suits brought against alleged joint
debtors in actions, ex-contract, it shall not be

Additional
section.

necessary for the plaintiff to prove their joint
liability as alleged in order to maintain his
action ; but he shall be entitled to recover as in
actions ex delicto against such one or more of
the defendants as shall be shown by the evi-
dence to be indebted to him ; and judgment
shall be entered in his favor against such one
or more of said defendants, as fully as if the

Not necessary
to prove.