ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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appointing of commissioners to lay out said road, or
vetoing so to do.

CHAPTER 174.

1812.

A Supplement to the act entitled, "An act for re-
gulating the mode of staying execution, " pass-
ed at November session seventeen hundred and
ninety-one.

Passed Jan, 4,
1812.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
no execution against the body or goods of any citizen
of this state, shall issue upon any judgment confessed
before any jus tice of the peace with stay of execution
for six months thereafter, according to the provisions
of the act to which this is a supplement, when such
judgment has been assigned by the person of persons
obtaining the same, unless the said justice of the peace
shall be satisfied by evidence that a demand has been
made by the person or persons holding such judgment
under such assignment, or by some person or persons
duly authorised on his behalf, upon the principal debtor
in the said judgment, for the amount of the same, at
or since the time when the same became payable;
Provided always, that such demand need not be made
on such principal debtor if he shall have removed since
such confession of judgment, from his then place of
residence.

CHAPTER 175.

Stay of Execu-
tion on confes-
sed judgements.

An act to authorise the levy court of Anne-Arun-
del county to assess and levy a sum of money for
the purpose therein mentioned.

Passed Jan. 4,
1812.

WHEREAS, Martha Sewell of Anne-Arundel
county, by her petition to this General Assembly
hath set forth, that she is far advanced in years and
|labouring under the infirmity of old age, which ren-
der s her incapable of supporting herself, and hath
prayed that a law may pass authorising and directing
the levy court of Anne Arundel county to assess ana
levy on the assessable property of said county, a sum
of money for her support; arid the prayer of the peti-
tioner appearing reasonable-Therefore,

Preamble.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the levy court of Anne-Arundel

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Levy court may.
assess a sum of