ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 329

CHAPTER 140.

AN ACT to add thirteen new and additional sections to Article
13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, —title
Harford County, —as repealed and re-enacted by Chapter
680 of the Acts of 1916, under the sub-title of Circuit
Court, to follow section 159; and to be numbered Sections
159a, 159b, 159c, 159d, 159e, 159f, 159g, 159h, 159i, 159j,
159k, 1591, and 159m.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That thirteen new additional sections be added to Article
13 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, —title Harford
County, —sub-title Circuit Courts, to follow section 159, and
be numbered as sections 159a, 159b, 159c, 159d, 159e, 159f, 159g,
159h, 159i, 159j, 159k, 1591, and 159m, said new sections to
read as follows:

SECTION 159a: In addition to the first day of each term of
the Circuit Court for Harford County, the second Monday in
each other month of the year shall hereafter be a rule day for
the return of process in civil cases, —unless same be a legal
holiday, in which case the day next succeeding shall be the
rule day; and the words "return day" wherever used in this
subtitle of this article shall apply as well to the first day of the
term as to the other return days herein enumerated.

SEC. 159b: All original writs, writs of execution, attach-
ment, replevin, ejectment, scire facias and habere facias, as
well as all other writs or process issued from or returnable to
said Court, which, under the practice heretofore existing,
would have been returnable to the first day of the term, shall
hereafter be made returnable to the first return day after the
issue of the same, or may be made returnable to the second
return day thereafter, if the party by whose directions same
was issued or his attorney shall so request in writing.

SEC. 159c: On the return of an original writ not executed
in said Court, the same may be renewed returnable to the
next return day thereafter; and, after two returns, any original
writ not executed at two successive return days for which the
writ is issued shall be permitted to he dormant. —renewable
only on the written order of the plaintiff or his attorney to
such future return day as the plaintiff or his attorney may
elect; and, upon a further return if not executed, said writ