T. WATK1NS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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for collection for the years eighteen hundred and fifty-
three and eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 322.

In force

AN ACT supplementary to an act, passed at Janua-
ry session, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, chap-
ter three hundred and twenty-five, entitled, an act
relating to the trial of facts in the several circuit
courts of this state.

Passed March
10, 1856.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That in all civil cases which have been
heretofore, or may hereafter be removed under the
provisions of the original act to which this is a sup-
plement, and in which a final judgment or decree
has been or may be obtained, it shall and may be law-
ful for the clerk of the court in which said judgment or
decree has been or may be obtained; and he is here-
by authorised and required, on application of the
plaintiff or plaintiffs in any such judgment or decree,
to issue execution on said judgment or decree,
against the goods and chattels, lands and tenements,
rights and credits, of any defendant or defendants,
lying and being in the county or the city of Balti-
more, in which said case shall have been originally
instituted, without first causing execution to be issued
in the county or city of Baltimore, in which said
judgment or decree may have been or shall hereafter
be obtained.

Civil cases re-
moved.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any such exe-
cution shall be directed to and served by the sheriff
or coroner, as the case may require, of the county or
city of Baltimore, in which the said case has been or
may be originally instituted, and returned to the
court of the county or city of which he is a sheriff
or coroner; and it shall be sufficient for the plaintiff
or plaintiffs, in order to entitle himself or themselves
to the benefit of such execution, to produce before

Execution to
be served by
sheriff.