PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

hands or possession of any person or persons whatever,
and the said plaintiff, at the time of issuing said attach-
ment, shall set up, at least at three of the most public
places in the county in which said attachment may issue,
at least ten days before the return day of said attach-
ment, an affidavit of the truth of his claim, together with
a copy thereof, in which said attachment there shall be
a clause commanding the constable to whom the same
may be directed, to make known to each person or per-
sons in whose hands or possession the said goods, chat-
tels, rights and credits, lands and tenements, are so at-
tached, and if to him, her or them, it shall seem meet
to be and appear on the return day of said attachment
before the said justice of the pence issuing the same, to
show cause, if any he, she or they have, why such
goods and chattels, rights and credits, lands and tene-
ments, so as aforesaid attached, shall not be condemned
by the said justice of the peace, and execution thereof
had and made as in other cases of jugdments and reco-
veries had before single justices of the peace in the State
of Maryland, at which said day of return of said attach-
ment, if said defendant, not the garnishee in whose
hands the aforesaid goods and chattels, rights and cred-
its, lands and tenements of the defendant were attached,
shall not shew cause to the contrary, the said justice of
the peace, before whom the said attachment may have
been returned, may condemn said goods and chattels,
rights and credits, lands and tenements so as aforesaid
attached, and award execution thereof, to be had and

CHAP. 269.

made as in other judgments; provided always, that the
said justice of the peace shall be satisfied, upon the oath
or affirmation of the said plaintiff, his agent or attorney,
that the notice required as aforesaid hath been given ac-
cording to the provisions aforesaid.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said plaintiff so
obtaining any attachment as aforesaid, shall give bond in

such penally as the said justice of the peace shall direct,
with good and sufficient security, before the said justice
of the peace rendering judgment of condemnation as
aforesaid, to and for the use of the said defendant, con-
ditioned to make restitution of the said goods and chat-
tels, rights and credits so as aforesaid condemned, or the
value thereof, and to pay such damages as the said jus-
tice of the peace may award to the said defendant, if the
defendant, whose goods and chatties, rights and credits,
were attached, shall at any time within twelve months
and a day, computed from the date of issuing the said
attachment, come in, and either in person or by his
agent, before the said justice of the peace rendering the

Plaintiff to give
bond, etc.