LEVIN WINDER, Esq. GOVERNOR,

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Moor and Williams' as practicable, be, and the same
is hereby repealed, and that the said company shall
make the said road from Hancock-Town to George
Rizer's, from thence to Thomas Pratt's, and from
thence to Cumberland, in the nearest and best direc-
tion the nature of the ground will admit of; any thing
in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

MAY SESS.
1813.

CHAPTER 18.

A further supplement to the act entitled, "An act for
regulating the mode of staying executions, and re-
pealing the acts of assembly therein mentioned, and
for other purposes. "

Passed May
29, 1813.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of
this act, and until the end of the session of the next
general assembly of Maryland, no execution against
the body, goods or chattels, lands or tenements of
any person or persons within this state, shall issue
upon any judgment or decree already obtained, or
hereafter to be obtained, in any court of law or equity
within this state, or before any justice of the peace of

Executions
—securities —
confession of
judgment, &c.

this state: Provided, the person or persons against
whom any judgment or decree is or may be obtained,
shall come before any one of the judges of the judicial
districts within which such person or persons respec-
tively reside, or before any two of the justices of the
peace of the county, or before one justice of the peace
on a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace, in
which such person or persons shall respectively re-
side, and, together with not less than two other per-
sons, such as the said judge or justices shall approve
of, confess judgment for the debt or damages and
costs of suit adjudged or decreed; which confession
shall be in manner and form following: " You, A B,
C D, and E F, do" jointly and severally confess judg-
ment to G H, for the sum of, and
costs, which were recovered by the said G H, against
the said A B, on the day of, in
the year of our Lord one thousand, in
the court or, (as the case may be, ) be-
fore, Esquire, one of the justices
of the peace, in and for county; the said
sum of money, and costs, to be levied of your bodies,
goods or chattels, lands and tenements, for the use
of the said G H, in case the said A B shall not pay and
satisfy to the said G H the said sum of money and
costs, so as aforesaid recovered, with additional costs-

Proviso.