JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

1834.

CHAPTER 79.

A further supplement to the act entitled at act directing the
manner of Suing out Attachments in this Province, and
limiting the extent of item.

Passed Feb. 9, 1835

SECTION I Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That no attachment that shall hereafter be issued
by virtue of the act to which this a supplement or, of any of
the supplements thereto shall fail, he dismissed, quashed, or
defeated because of any defect in any averment, as to the
citizenship or residence or inhabitancy of the plaintiff or
plaintiffs or any of them, or because of any omission alto-
gether of averment in that respect, in the affidavit for such
attachment, or in any act, or any part of the proceedings pre-

liminary to such issuing of attachments, provided that, if any
trial table place it be proved at the trial in such attachment
case, that the plaintiff or plaintiffs or any of them at the time
of issuing said attachment was or were a resident or inhabi-
tant or residents or inhabitants of one of the United States
of America or of a District or Territory thereof

If residence be

Sec 2 And be it enacted, That in any cases of attach
ments that shall hereafter be issued by virtue of the act to
which this is a supplement, or of any of the supplements
thereto, against any person or persons not residing in this
State, such attachments shall not be dissolved unless the
defendant or defendants in such cases, or some person for
such defendant or defendants shall enter into bond with
good security to be approved by the court, to satisfy any
judgment that shall be recovered in such ease against said
defendant or defendants

Attachments a-

gain non-resi-

dents

See 3 And be it enacted. That where any attachment as
aforesaid shall hereafter be levied or laid upon any lands,
tenements, hereditaments, goods, or chattels or credits, oi
a non resident, defendant or defendants, no conveyance,
transfer, or assignment of any such lands, tenements, here-
ditaments, goods, or chattels or credits, shall have any effect

Sale or assign-

ments not valid

against such attachment unless the same shall have been re
corded in the office of the clerk of the county in which such
attachment shall have issued, before the time of such is
suing

Cases recorded