1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 361.

May inquire
into place of
contract.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be competent
for non-residents arrested as aforesaid, by petition, to have
the fact of non-residence, and the fact of the place of
contract inquired into, and decided before the return day
of the writ, on which he may have been arrested.

Not to effect
the law of at-
tachment.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall not be
construed as affecting in any degree the law of attach-
ment.

CHAPTER 361.

Passed March
10, 1847.

A supplement to an act for clearing out the Pocomoke
River, in Worcester County, by means of a Lottery,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and forty,
chapter two hundred and fifteen.

Commission-
ers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Ebenezer Hearn, William H. Merrill
and James Stevenson, of Worcester county be, and they
are hereby appoinied commisioners for the clearing of
Terrapin gut, a branch of the Pocomoke, leading from
said river lo the vicinily of Newtown, and also for the
further purpose of cutting a ditch from the head of said
gut up into Winter Quarter swamp, in such manner as
they may deem best suited for the draining of said
swamp and the low lands in its immediate vicinity.

Commission-
ers of lotteries
to pay $300.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
of the lottery, are hereby directed and required to pay to
the commissioners appointed by this act for the purpose
herein mentioned, the sum of three hundred dollars when
thai amount is in their hands, or as soon as the same shall
be realized by a scheme of a lottery for the clearing out
of the Pocomoke river, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and forty, any other law lo the con-
trary notwithstanding.