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CHAPTER 240.

AN ACT to add an additional Section to Article Seventy-Five of
Bagby's Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland, title "Plead-
ings, Practice and Process at Law," sub-title "Process," to
follow Section 144 thereof and to be designated as Section
144-A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new Section be and the same is hereby added to
Article Seventy-Five of the Code of Public Civil Laws of Mary-
land, title "Pleadings, Practice and Process at Law," sub-title
"Process," to be designated as Section 144-A thereof, and to
follow Section 144, and to read as follows:

SEC. 144-A. On the return of an original writ to any of
the Circuit Courts of the State, not executed in any of said
Courts the same shall be renewed, returnable to the next return
day thereafter, and after two returns of any original writ not
executed at the two succeeding return days after the writ is
first issued, the same shall be permitted to lie dormant, return-
able only on the written order of the plaintiff, or his attorney
of record, to such future return day as the said plaintiff, or
his attorney, may elect; and upon a further return of not
executed, said writ shall be again permitted to lie, renewable
only as aforesaid, the said plaintiff, or his attorney, having the
right to renew said writ to as many subsequent return days,
under the same mode of procedure as may be deemed proper,
until the same is executed.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 1st, 1914.

CHAPTER 241.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 2 of
Article 17 of the Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland
(Bagby's Code), title "Clerks of Court," sub-title "General
Duties of Clerks."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 2 of Article 175 of the Code of Public Civil
Laws of Maryland (Bagby's Code), title "Clerks of Courts,"
sub-title '' General Duties of Clerks,'' be and the same is hereby