SAMUEL 9PRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1820.

decree shall be made as aforesaid, by virtue of this act, his or
their heirs, devisees or representatives, or any person claiming
by from or under them, shall appear in the said county court, as
a court of chancery, at any time not exceeding eighteen calendar
months from the time of making such decree, and request a re-
view of the same, the. said county court, as a court of chancery,
upon a bill bring filed by any person or persons as aforesaid en-
titled to file the same, shall proceed to an examination of the
matters in dispute, and to a final decree, according to the equity
of the case, in the same manner as if the said legal representa-

tives of Charles Ridgely had originally appeared in the said
county court as aforesaid; And provided a/so, that such legal re-
presentatives of the said Charles Ridgely mat, at any time be-
fore a decree shall have passed, appear in the said court, and be
admitted to defend the cause on filing a good and sufficient an-
swer, plea, or demurrer to the bill.

CHAP. 79.

CHAP. LXXX.

An Act, entitled A further supplement to the act, entitled, An Act for Regulat-
ing the mode of Staying Executions, and for other purposes.

WHEREAS great doubts have arisen whether justices of the
peace of the respective counties within this state, are authorised
to issue executions on judgments rendered by the justices afore-
said, and superseded under the act, entitled, An additional supple-
ment to the act, entitled, An act for the regulating the mode of
staying executions, and repealing the acts of assembly therein
mentioned, and for other purposes, passed at December session
eighteen hundred and nineteen; for remedy whereof,
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
clerks of the several counties of this state, or any justice of the
peace of the same county respectively, he and they are hereby au-
thorised and empowered, on the application of the plaintiff or plain-
tiffs, his, her or their attorney, or some person authorised by him,
her or them, in writing, and none other, to issue executions, in
the case or cases before, mentioned, according to the provisions of
the said act, passed at December session eighteen hundred and
nineteen, from the supersedeas filed in their office, in case applica-
tion shall be made to the clerk, or if to a justice of the peace,
then from their respective dockets, such dockets containing an
entry of the supersedeas and persons superseding, or from a short
copy from the clerk's office, containing the amount of the judg-
ment superseded, the costs, and the names of the securities or per-
sons superseding, and any other material part of said judgment.

Passed Dec 22.

Preamble.

Clerks and justi-
ces of the peace
authorised to issue
executions.

2. And be it enacted, That for furnishing said copy the clerk be
entitled to the sum of twelve cents and a half, as a compensation
for each and every copy so furnished, and for every execution
twenty-five cents.

Allowance to
clerk.

3. And be it enacted, That all executors and administrators may
supersede and slay execution, issued against the goods and chat-
tels, rights and credits, of their testators or intestates respective-
ly, in the same manner as if the said executions bad issued against
them in their own right, according to the provisions of the act to
which this is a supplement; and the form of the supersedeas to be
used in such case shall be as nearly similar to the form prescrib-

Executors, &c may
supersede and stay
executions.