876 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Section 29D. When any judgment by default shall be en-
tered under any of the preceding sections the Court may at any
time thereafter assess the damages upon proof thereof without
impaneling a jury to do so.

Section 29E. On all judgments entered in said Court there
shall be a stay of execution until the return day or the first day
of the term, whichever shall first occur next succeeding the re-
turn day or the first day of the term at which said judgment
may have been entered, with the right to the defendant to super-
sede the same for six months from the expiration of said stay
as now allowed by law; provided, however, that the Court may,
on motion in writing by" the plaintiff or his attorney, showing
sufficient reasons therefor, allow an execution or attachment or
other proper writ to be issued at any time after the entry of
judgment as aforesaid and before the expiration of said stay.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
upon the first day of May in the year nineteen hundred and ten.

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 211.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 37 of the Acts of 1904, entitled
an Act to require all Corporations engaged in Mining Coal
or Fire Clay in Garrett County to pay their employees wages
due semi-monthly and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 37 of the Acts of 1904, entitled an Act to
require all Corporations engaged in Mining Coal or Fire Clay
in Garrett County to pay their employees wages due semi-
monthly, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, to read as follows:

SEC. 2. That all corporations or individual mine-owners now
or hereafter engaged in mining Coal or Fire Clay in Garrett
County, be and the same are hereby required to pay each and
all their employees their wages earned in said employment
semi-monthly; that is to say, all wages earned on or before the
fifteenth day of each month shall be paid not later than the
twenty-fifth day of each month, and all wages earned from six-
teenth day to the last day of the month, both inclusive, shall be
paid on or before the tenth day of the succeeding month, unless
said twenty-fifth day or tenth day of any month shall fall on
Sunday or a legal holiday, in which case the time of payment
shall be extended to the next day; and if payment as above is