THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

State, to issue an attachment or attachments in the same
manner that the several county courts of this State now
have power to issue attachment or attachments in such
cases, and to proceed to judgment and execution in the
same manner as said county courts now do, except that
the intervention of a jury shall in no case be necessary,
but that all facts put in issue in such cases shall be deci-
ded in the same manner as issues in fact are now decided
in all other cases now within the jurisdiction of said
magistrates courts.

CHAP. 349.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any justice of the

said magistrates' courts during the recess of said courts,
shall have the like power to issue an attachment or at-

tachments upon a judgment or judgments of a single jus-
lice of the peace, or upon their own judgment or judg-
ments as the said courts now have authority to issue the
same when actually in session.

CHAPTER 349.

During recess
of courts may
issue attach-
ment.

A further supplement to an act entitled, an act for there-
lief of sundry Insolvent Debtors, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and five, chapter one hundred
and ten.

Passed Mar.
10, 1846.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
the commissioners of insolvent debtors lor the city and
county of Baltimore, be and they are hereby authorised
and empowered to issue commissions to places beyond
their jurisdiction, and to take testimony in cases pending
before them, in the mode, and subject to existing laws
relative to the issuing of like commissions from the coun-
ty courts of this State, and the said commissions shall be
issued by the clerk of said commissioners of insolvent
debtors, under their seal.

Commission-
ers may issue
commission to
take testimony.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the
passage of this act, in all cases of appeal taken from an
unfavorable report by the commissioners of insolvent
debtors for the city and county of Baltimore, to Baltimore
county court, that pending such appeal, and until the
same shall have been finally determined by the said court,
the petitioner, appellant shall be, and is hereby declar-
ed, fully protected in all respects by the personal dis-

Upon appeal
petitioner pro-
tected.