LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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terest from the time when the said confession was en-
tered into; and the sheriff, coroner or constable, (as
the case may be, ) shall lew such interest accordingly.
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no distress for
rent shall be made until the expiration of the next
session of the general assembly: Provided, The tenant
or tenants enter into bond to the landlord or landlords,
his, her or their executors or administrators, with
such security and in such penalty as two justices of the
peace of the county wherein the lands or tenements
for which said rent may have accrued are situated,
shall approve of, conditioned for the payment of the
sum due after the expiration of the next session of the
general assembly with interest thereon from the time
the said rent became due; and the said bond so as afore-
said taken, shall be regained by the justices of the
peace taking the same, to be by them delivered to the
person or persons to whom the rent is or may be so as
aforesaid due; and in case any distress for rent shall
be made before the end of the next session of the gen-
eral assembly of Maryland, if the persons so as afore-
said distressed shall enter into bond in manner afore-
said, the justices so as aforesaid taking the said bond,
shall grant a certificate thereof to the person or persons
so as aforesaid distressed; and the said certificate be-
ing delivered to the officer making the distress, on his
being paid, or security being given for the fees incur-
red by the said distress, the officer making the said
distress shall, and he is hereby authorised and directed
to return and deliver the goods and chattels to the per-
son or persons so distressed.

1813.

Distress for
rent

Proviso

8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person,
or the executors or administrators of any person to
whom any such bond shall be executed, shall conceive
him, her or themselves in danger of suffering from the
insufficiency of security upon such bond, it shall and
may be lawful for him, her or them to apply to the two
justices of the peace be ore whom the said bond was
executed, or upon the death, removal or disqualifica-
tion of the said justices, or either of them, then to any
other two justices of the peace of the county aforesaid,
who may, if they deem the said application well found-
ed, cause a notice under their hands and seals to be
served upon the person or persons, their executors or
administrators by whom the said bond was given, or
left at his, her or their last place of abode, requiring
him, her or them, within a fixed reasonable time there-
after, to enter into a new bond, with other security,
to be approved of by said justices; and upon neglect

Insufficiency
of security,