A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,
CHAPTER 268.

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AN ACT to repeal the nineteenth section of the
twenty-ninth Article of the Code of Public Gener.
Laws, and the proviso to the Thirty-third section
of fifth Article of the said Code relating to the stay
of execution, and to extend the time for enforcing
the execution of Judgment.

Passed March
10 1864.

SECTION 1. And be it enacted, by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the nineteenth section
of the twenty-ninth Article of the Code of Public
General Laws, and the proviso of the thirty-third
section of the fifth Article of said Code, be and the
same are hereby repealed so far as they may con-
flict with provisions of this act.

Repealed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That upon all judg-
ments or decrees, or orders for the payment of
money rendered, or to be rendered by any court or
Justice of the Peace in any of the counties of this
State, to which this act shall be made applicable,
and upon all powers to sell, contained in any mort-
gage, and on all decrees for sale of mortgage prop-
erty, there shall be a stay of execution until the
first day of January eighteen hundred and sixty-
five; and on condition the debtor then pay all
the interest then accrued and costs, and an instal-
ment of one fourth of the whole debt, there shall
be a stay of execution for four months thereafter,
when upon payment of the interest then due, and
a second instalment of one third of the original
debt, there shall be a stay of four months thereaf-
ter; and upon the payment of the interest then,
due and a third instalment of one half the balance
of the original debt at the expiration of that time,
there shall be a further stay for four months there-
after; at the expiration of which time the entire

Stay of exe-
cution

balance of said debt with interest and all costs ac-
crued after the first payment shall be paid; provi-
ded, however that if the debtor shall fail to pay
the first or any subsequent instalment at the time
or in the manner and to the amount set forth, he
shall forfeit all benefit of this act, and execution
may issue as to the whole or any balance of the
debt with interest and costs then clue.

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Proviso.