1834.

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAP 293

ersor the court as the case may be, may at their discretion, ac
cordingly require such security to be given to be approved

If demanded and

not given

by them respectively, and assign a day by which the same
shall be given, and if such security be not given by such day,

Discharge invalid

shall have no effect until the said security shall be given, or
until such insolvent debtor shall obtain a final discharge un-
der his application

tone.

Sec 5 And be enacted, That where interrogatories shall
be filed before the commissioners aforesaid, on part of my
creditor against an insolvent debtor, the commissioners may
as to such debtor's disposition of Ins property and his compli

Examiner witnesses

ance with the provisions of the insolvent laws, examine any
witness that may be adduced on behalf of either the debtor of

Issue subpoenas-
attachments

the creditor, and may issue subpoena on request of any of said
parties for any witnesses, and enforce their attendance by
attachment, and direct all process in the premises to the
sheriff of Baltimore couuty, who shall execute the same

Case of application
and rehearing

Sec 6 And be it enacted, that where upon the case of
any application that shall hereafter be made to the commis-
sioners, the said commissioners shall make an unfavorable re-
port to Baltimore county court, and the insolvent debtor shall
apply to said court for a review of said case under the sup-
plement to the act to which this is a supplement, passed at
December session of the year eighteen hundred and twen-

Personal discharge

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ty nrne, chapter two hundred and eight, the personal dis
charge that shall have been granted to such insolvent debt
or shall cease to have any effect until and unless such

Until benefit is

granted

court shall be of opinion after examination as prescribed by
said supplement, that said insolvent debtor is entitled to the
benefit of the said insolvent laws

Explanatory-scire

facias

Sec 7 And whereas, it is doubtful whether a scire facias
be not necessary upon a judgment, although three years
shall not have elapsed since its rendition, in order by virtue
of the fifth section of the act of November session or the
year eighteen hundred and five, chapter one hundred and
ten, to affect and make answerable by execution any pro-
perty acquired by an insolvent debtor by gift, or descent or
in his or her own right, by bequest, devise, or in any course
of distribution, therefore be it further enacted, that no
scire facias in any such case where more than three years
shall not have elapsed as aforesaid, shall be deemed ncces
sary for the purpose aforesaid.