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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

MAY SESS.

1813.

him, her or them, within a fixed reasonable time to be
mentioned in such summon, to enter into another con-
fession of the same judgment, with other securities, to
be approved of by said judge or justices; and upon the
failure or neglect of such person or persons to comply
with the requisition in such summon contained, the
said judge or justices, upon proof of the serving of such
summon, or of its being left at the last place of abode
of the person or persons on whom it should have been
served, are hereby directed to deliver, upon the same
being applied for, a statement under his or their hands
and seals, of the issuing of such summon and the fail-
ure of compliance therewith; upon the delivery whereof
to the cleric or register of the court where such con-
fession of judgment was returned, the plaintiff or plain-
tiffs in the original judgment, may have and use the
same proceedings thereon which might or could have

Proviso

been had if this act had never passed: Provided always,
That if after the expiration of the time mentioned in
the said summon, a confession of judgment as therein
required shall be entered into, and a certificate thereof
obtained, such certificate shall have the same force and
operation as it would have had under this act if no ante-
cedent confession of judgment had ever been made,
and the said confession of judgment shall be returned
and recorded in the same manner, and under the same
penalties, as are herein before prescribed.

Judgments or
decrees hereto-
fore obtained.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all and every
case where the person or persons against whom any
judgment or decree hath heretofore been obtained, have
superseded the same in the manner prescribed by the
original act to which this is a further supplement, it shall
and may be lawful for such person or persons to super-
sede the original judgment or decree in the manner
pointed out by this act, and such confession shall ope-
rate as a stay of execution, as well upon the said ori-
ginal judgment as upon the said former confession.

Sums stayed
by confession
shall bear in-
terest.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any judgment
or decree as aforesaid for a sum certain, which doth
not purport to carry interest on the money or tobacco
for which the same was obtained, shall be stayed by
reason of any confession as aforesaid, such sum shall
bear interest from the date of such confession; and it
shall and may be lawful for the party who may hereaf-
ter sue out execution on said confession of judgment,
or the original judgment on which such confession was
made, to compel payment of interest on the said sum
of money or tobacco, from the date of the said con-
fession, by endorsing on the execution his claim of in-