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engaged in any of the services mentioned in Section 1, because
of the pendency or institution of the cause or proceedings
sought to be suspended or stayed.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public safety, and being passed upon
a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the mem-
bers elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assem-
bly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved June 27th, 1917.

CHAPTER 23.

AN ACT to provide for the suspension or stay, during the con-
tinuance of the present war, of any judgment, order or de-
cree, levy, right of entry or foreclosure, lien, power of sale,
forfeiture or default, on application by or on behalf of per-
sona against whom or against whose property interests the
same may be executed or enforced, and who are unable, by
reason of military or naval service, to make payment or sat-
isfaction thereof; and prescribing the manner, duration,
terms and extent of application of such suspension or stay.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland. That the execution or enforcement of any judgment,
order or decree of any kind, whether in law or in equity, and
whether in personam or in rem, and of any levy, right of entry
or foreclosure, lien, power of sale, forfeiture or default which
may hereafter be entered or rendered or which may exist or
arise during the continuance of the present war, may be sus-
pended or staid, upon application by or on behalf of any person
against whom or against whose legal or equitable interest in
any property, real or personal, the same may be executed or
enforced, provided the court to which such application is made
shall find that such person so liable or interested is unable, by