EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1295

CHAPTER 617.

AN ACT to repeal Section 148 of Article 75 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Pleadings, Prac-
tice and Process at Law, " sub-title "Process, " and to re-
enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by tine General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 148 of Article 75 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland, title, "Pleadings, Practice and Process
at Law", sub-title "Process", be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

SECTION 148. If any trespass shall be committed on any
real property and the person committing the same shall remove
from the county where said property may lie or cannot be found
in such county, such trespasser may be sued in any county where
lie may be found, and all warrants of resurvey in such cases
shall be directed to and executed by the Sheriff and Surveyor
of the County where the land lies and returned to the Court
from which the warrant issued or to the Court to which the case
may have been removed for trial before the return of said war-
rant; and an executor may be sued either in the county where
he resides or where he obtained administration.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of June, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 618.

AN ACT to add an additional Section to Article 21 of Bagby's
Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland, title "Convey-
ancing, " to follow Section 21 and to be known as Section
21-A, relating to the rights of creditors of grantors in deeds
and other conveyances not recorded within six months from
their date, and defining the true date of such deeds and
other conveyances so recorded.

WHEREAS, The titles to many real and leasehold properties
are clouded by the inadvertence of the grantees in failing to
record the deeds or other conveyances of such properties within
six months from their date as required by law, in consequence
of which the properties conveyed by said deeds may be subject