294 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 104
CHAPTER 104.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
33 of Article 9 of the Annotated Code of the Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924, title "Attach-
ments, " sub-title, "Attachments of Wages or Hire, " pro-
viding that the exemption of the sum of one hundred
dollars of such wages or hire due to any laborer or em-
ployee by any employer or corporation can not be
waived.

PREAMBLE AND DECLARATION OP LEGISLATIVE INTENT:

The Court of Appeals of Maryland in a recent decision has
held that a wage earner may, by a stipulation in a prom-
issory note authorizing judgment by confession without
summons or trial, waive his $100 wage exemption granted
by Statute. It is the sense of the General Assembly that
the real legislative intent in the passage of this exemption
statute as amended from time to time, was to create a $100
wage exemption which the laborer or wage earner might
not waive, and it is the intent and desire of the General
Assembly by the repeal and re-enactment of this exemption
statute so to change the wording of this statute that it
clearly and unmistakably expresses the intention which the
General Assembly believes was sought to be expressed in
the passage of the original Act and amendments thereto.
It is the sense of the General Assembly that to permit a
wage earner to waive this exemption would frequently re-
sult in depriving not only the wage earner but his depend-
ents of the necessities of life, thus rendering him and such
dependents a charge upon the community.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 33 of Article 9 of the Annotated
Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, Edition of
1924, title "Attachments, " sub-title, "Attachments of Wages
or Hire, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-en-
acted, with amendments, to read as follows:

33. No attachments of the wages or hire of any laborer
or employee, in the hands of the employer, whether private
individuals or bodies corporate, shall affect any salary or
wages of the debtor which are not actually due at the date
of the attachment; and the sum of one hundred dollars of
such wages or hire due to any laborer or employee by any
employer or corporation shall always be exempt from at-
tachment by any process whatever. Every contract or
agreement of any character whatsoever of such laborer or