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Passed Jan-
30, 1865
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A Bill entitled, AN ACT to amend the fifth sec-
tion of Article eighteen of the Code of Public
General Laws entitled, Clerks of Courts, and to
repeal sections thirty-two and thirty-three of
Article ten of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled "Attachments."
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Section
amended . and
re-enacted.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the fifth section of Article
eighteen of the Code of Public Geberal Laws, en-
titled, "Clerks of Courts," be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows : the Clerk of any of
the courts of this State may issue an execution of
judgment or decree directed to the Sheriff of an-
other county, whether a return of nulla bona to a
writ of execution issued to the Sheriff of the county
or city, wherein the said judgment or decree was
rendered, has been made or not, which writ of exe-
cution issued and directed to the Sheriff of another
county, shall be made returnable to the Circuit
Court of the counly to which it may be sent, and
if sent to the city of Baltimore, returnable to the
Superior Court of said city; and there shall be sent
therewith by the Clerk issuing the same, to the
Clerk of the court to which said writ shall be re-
turnable, a copy of the docket entries in the case
upon which the court may proceed on said execu-
tion by renewal or otherwise, in the same manner
as if said execution had issued on a judgment or
decree rendered in said court, and on attachments
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Provisos.
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on judgments or decree, shall be regarded as an
execution in the meaning of this section; provided,
nevertheless, that no execution or attachment on
judgment shall be issued and directed to another
county earlier than the same could be issued and
directed to the Sheriff of the county or city wherein
the same may have been rendered, and if there has
been no return of nulla bona until the plaintiff or
plaintiffs, or his or their attorney of record shall
make and file with the Clerk issuing the same, an
affidavit that he or they are unable to discover in
the county or city where the judgment or decree
has been obtained property from which the same
can be realized ; and, provided further, that no
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