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any laborer or employe by any employer or corporation shall
always be exempt from attachment by any process whatever,
provided such exemption shall not exceed one hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any Act or Acts
inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such
inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1927.

Approved April 5, 1927.

CHAPTER 441.

AN ACT to add additional sections to the Code of Public Local
Laws of Anne Arundel County, title "Circuit Court, " to
come in after Section 149-A of said Local Laws, providing
for and regulating the entry of final judgments in cases
where interlocutory judgments or judgments by default have
been entered against defendants.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the following sections be and they are hereby
added to the Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel
County, title "Circuit Court, " to come in after Section 149-A

of said Local Laws and to be Sections 149-B and 149-C of said
Local Laws.

149-B. In all actions in the Circuit Court for Anne Arun-
del County upon bills, notes, bonds or other instruments of
writing for the payment of money, or for the recovery of book
and open accounts or on foreign judgments, judgment by de-
fault shall be entered by the Court when sitting or by the
Clerk thereof on order of a judge of said Court during recess,
upon motion in writing of the plaintiff, or his attorney, after
twenty days from the return day hereinafter provided, to which
the defendant was summoned, notwithstanding the appearance
by the defendant, unless the defendant, or if there be more than

one, one or more of them shall have previously filed in the cause
an affidavit stating that the defendant verily believes there is a
legal defense to the whole or part of such cause of action, and