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T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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1860.
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SEC. 16. If any sheriff of Baltimore city or any
deputy thereof, shall wilfully violate the provisions
of this act, the said sheriff shall forfeit the sum of
one thousand dollars, which shall be recovered by
civil action in the name of the State against the
sheriff and the sureties on his bond, in that behalf;
and one-half of the said penalty shall be paid to
the informer, who shall be a competent witness.
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CHAP. 309.
Sheriff to ob-
serve this act,
under penalty.
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SEC. 17. Any two of the judges named in the
first section of this act, may constitute a quorum
at any meeting held under the provisions of this
act; and may exercise all the powers hereby reposed
in the said judges.
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Quorum.
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SEC. 18. In all criminal cases in which the person
indicted has or may have the right of peremptory
challenge; the State's attorney shall have the right
to challenge peremptorily any number of jurors not
exceeding five.
CHAPTER 309.
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Criminal
cases—right
of challenge.
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AN ACT to amend an act entitled, an act to in-
corporate the Mutual Insurance Company of Al-
legany county, passed at December session, eigh-
teen hundred and forty-nine, chapter one hun-
dred and eleven, and the supplement thereto,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and forty-nine, chapter three hundred and eighty-
five.
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Passed March
5, 1860.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all judgments for premium notes
entered up in accordance with the original act,
shall be liens upon the property insured by said
company, and that it shall not be necessary to re-
vive the said judgments by scire facias, but that
execution may at any and all times be issued upon
said judgments for the amount thereof, to be re-
leased upon the payment of any and all assess-
ments, that may be from time to time assessed
thereon, by the president and directors of said com-
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Judgments
for premium
notes, liens,
&c.
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