The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1862-03-22


session of the Legislature:
SEC. l. Amd be 1T enacted By the Gene
raj assembly Of Maryland, That the sew
enteenth chapter Of the Public General
Laws, passed at special session of the
General Assembly of Maryland, held on
the tweuty-sixth day of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one. be amended and
extended beyond its present duration, so
as to operate further stay of execution on
the conditions in the following sections
prescribed
SEC. 2. Aad be 1T enacted, That as to
all judgments or DEGREES or orders for the
payment of money, rendered or to be rem
dered by any court or justice of the peace
of this State, and upon all powers TO sell,
contained in any mortgage, and on all de-
crees for sale of mortgaged prope ty, there
shall be further stay of execution after
the period limited in said act, until the
first day of November next; and on con-
dition the debtor then pay all the interest
then accrued and costs, and an instalment
Of one-ffth of the whole debt, there shall
be stay of execution for four months
thereafter, when, upon payment of the in
terest then due, and second ipstalment
Of one-ffth of the original debt there shall
be stay for four months thereafter; and
upon the payment of the interest then
due, and third instalment of one-half
of the balance of the original debt,
at the expiration of that time, there
shall be further stay of four months
thereafter, at the expiration of which time
the entire balance of said debt, with in
terest, and costs accrued after the first
payment shall have been paid; provided,
however, that if the debtor should fail to
pay the first or any subsequent instalment
at the time, or in the manner, and to the
amount above set forth, he shall forfeit all
benefit of this act, and execution may is
sue as to the whole or any balance Of
the debt, with interest and costs then due.
Sec. 2. And.be 1t enacted, That during
the continuance of this act, judgments
rendered by justices of the peace within
any of the counties of this State, shall be
liens upon the real estate of the defend
ants in said judgments from the time Of
their being recorded, as hereinafter provi-
ded for, upon their being fled with the
clerk of the circuit courts of the several
counties of the State in which the defend.
ants shall reside, and recorded in a
record kept for that purpose, for which the
clerk shall receive twenty-five cents in
each case, but the lien of said judgments
i shall not be considered as prior to judg
ments rendered in the circuit courts Of
this State at the term of said court next
succeeding the filing Of the judgments rem
dered before justice of the peace, as
aforesaid, but shall be considered only
equal as liens to them.
Sec. 4. And be 1t enacted, That the Sc
! curities provided for as to mortgage O
personal property, and also the immunity
Of the lien of judgments in the second sec
ton of the original acts referred to, shall
apply to all cases covered by this act; ant
that this act shall not apply to debts con
tracted after the tenth day of May next
SEC. S. And be 1t enasted, That tn
period allowed by this act, and said act Q
1861, chapter II, shall not be compute,
as portion of the three years within
which an execution may issue on an,
Judgment in decree to which the stay Q
execution provided for by this act, or tn
said act Of 1861, chapter II, is applicable
j Z SEC. 6. Amd be ii enacted, That wher
any execution had been levied upon pei
sonal property at the time when said &C
i Of 1861, chapter II, went into effect, an
sale was stayed under such execution b
said act, the officer serving said executio
shall not be held responsible for said pre-
perty, unless he shall have taken and bel
said property in his actual possession.
4 Sec. 4 nd be IL enacted, That notl
q ing in this act, or the act Of which this
amendatory, shall apply to Judgments (
DEGREES rendered in favor Of the State,
in any way affect, limit or restrain attacl
ments on warrant or Judgment again,
the lands, goods and chattels, rights an
credits Of non-residents or abscondin
q debtors, as practiced under existing law
Secs. And be II enacted, That notl
s ing contained in this act, or the said q,
Of which this is amendatory, shall be col
! tstrued to- prevent the sale Of any real
: personal estate, under any decree or ofdt
heretofore passed, or that may be hereaft'
passed upon Creditors bill = where 4
4 the parties to the cause wherein such d
cree or order has been or may be passe
shall agree to such sale, BY consent
|, writing, to BE- signed By said parties,