T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1861.

official seal, and if without this State before any
person authorized by the laws of Maryland, to take
the acknowledgment of Deeds, acknowledged
without this State.

CHAP. 77.

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

In force.

CHAPTER 77.

AN ACT to amend the tenth Article of the Code
of Public General Laws, by adding thereto the
following Sections r elating to attachments against
non-residents of the State and parties absconding
therefrom, in certain actions for wrongs affect-
ing the personal rights of the citizen.

Passed June
24, 1861.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the tenth Article of the Code of Public
General Laws, be and the same is hereby amended
by the addition of the following Sections; viz.:

Amended,

SECTION 1. In all actions for illegal arrest, false
imprisonment, or violation of the twenty-first,
twenty-third, twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth
Articles of the Declaration of Rights, or any of
them, or of the existing or any future provisions
of the Code touching the writ of habeas corpus,
or proceedings thereunder, the plaintiff shall be
entitled to the benefit of all of the provisions of this
Act, in regard to attachments against the lands,
tenements, goods, chattels and credits of non-resi-
dent or absconding defendants.

Attachments.

SEC. 2. No warrant from a Judge or Justice of
'the Peace, shall be necessary in order to entitle
the plaintiff, in any of the cases provided for in
the preceding section, to the benefit of the remedy
therein granted; but attachment on the amount
of damages claimed in the declaration shall be
issued upon the written order of the plaintiff or
his attorney, by the Clerk of the court in which
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Remedy.