1926                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND [Ch. 566

county, the said] THE debt and costs to be levied of our
goods, chattels, land and tenements, for the use of [the

said) _____ in case the [said ] _____ shall not pay and

satisfy to [the said] _____ the [aforesaid] judgment and

costs, with any additional costs [thereon,] at the
expiration of six months from the date of [said] THE
judgment." The [said] supersedeas [to] SHALL be signed
by one or more sureties, who shall severally make oath
before the [said justice of the peace] DISTRICT COURT,
that he is worth double the amount of debt, interest and
costs, over and above all debts and exemptions[; and the
said justice], THE DISTRICT COURT shall judge [of] the
sufficiency of [said] THE supersedeas to secure the
amount of debt, interest and costs, and shall require the
same to be sufficient to secure the debts, interest and
costs. [; and when] WHEN the supersedeas [shall be] IS
filed with the [justice of the peace, and he shall be]
DISTRICT COURT AND THE COURT IS satisfied of its
sufficiency as a security for the debt [so] confessed,
the [said justice] DISTRICT COURT shall issue an order to
the landlord, [bailiff] CONSTABLE, or agent[,] to release
the property in his possession, and all further
proceedings in the distraint shall be null and void. [;
provided, that this section shall not affect contracts
existing on the 5th of April, 1888. ]

152.

The sheriff of St. Mary's County or his jailor, upon
the demand of the [bailiff] CHIEF OF POLICE of any
incorporated town in [said] THE county, or of any
supervisor of any public road of [said] THE county, or
other person [duly] authorized to superintend the
repairing of the public streets of [said] THE town, or
the public roads of [said] THE county, [is hereby
authorized and required to] SHALL deliver to [such] THIS
person or official[,] any [male] prisoner over [sixteen]
16 years of age[,] or under [fifty] 50 years of age[, ]
who may be confined in [said] THE jail under sentence
imposed by [the Circuit Court of any justice of the peace
of said county, in any case] A COURT OF COMPETENT
JURISDICTION FOR A CONVICTION of drunkenness, disorderly
conduct, disturbing the public peace, vagrancy, petty
larceny, carrying concealed weapons, gaming or playing at
crap[, in order that said bailiff]. THE CHIEF OF POLICE
or supervisor or other official in charge of [said]
public streets or highways may employ such prisoner on
the public roads of St. Mary's County, or on the public
streets of any incorporated town of [said] THE county.

153.

The employment provided for in Section 152 shall be
performed, if within the corporate limits of any
incorporated town, under the supervision and discretion
of the Town Commissioners and [bailiff] CHIEF OF POLICE