1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 139

Take effect.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take ef-
feet from and after the first day of May next.

CHAPTER 139.

Passed Feb.
20, 1848.

A further supplement to the act entitled, an act for the re-
lief of Sundry Insolvent Debtors, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and five.

No person dis-
charged from
personal arrest.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland. That no person shall be discharged from
personal arrest, or be entitled to the benefit of the act to
which this is a supplement unless he shall present to the
justice of the orphan's court or the judge of the judicial
district to whom application shall be made, for the bene-
fit of this act, a certificate from the clerk of the county

wherein such applicant shall have resided, and wherein
such application shall be made, that such applicant hath

Not applied for
the act of Nov.
ses. 1805.

not applied for the benefit of the act for the relief of sun-
dry insolvent debtors, passed at November session, eigh-
teen hundred and five, and its several supplements, within
two years before the date of said application.

Null and void.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all mortgages, deeds
or other conveyances executed, or judgments confessed,
by any person, with a view, or under an expectation of
being, and becoming an insolvent debtor, and with the
intent to prefer any creditor, or security, shall be utterly
null and void, although such mortgages, deeds or other
conveyances were executed, and judgments confessed at
the earnest request, solicitation and demand of such cre-
ditor or creditors, security or securities, and the proper-
ty conveyed by deed, mortgage or other conveyance as
aforesaid, or bound by the judgment confessed or exe-

Vest in trus-
tees.

cution issued thereon, shall vest in the trustee or trustees
of such insolvent applicant, for the benefit of the credi-
tors of such applicant, and shall be distributed among
said creditors according to the provisions of the act pass-

Proviso.

ed at November session eighteen and five, and its sup-
plements; provided, that nothing herein contained, shall
debar or prevent such applicant from receiving a final
discharge, unless the jury empannelled to try the issues
joined, on allegations filed by any creditor or creditors,
shall find that such mortgages, deeds, or other convey-
ances, were executed by such applicant with the intent
to deceive and defraud his creditors.