Acts. 657

And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gover-
nor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Author-
ity of the same, That from and after the End of this Session of
Assembly, it shall not be lawful for any Attorney practicing now,
or who shall hereafter practice Law in any Court of Record within
this Province, or any other Person whatever, to confess a Judgment
either in Court, or before one or more Justices of such Court or
Courts, out of Court, for any Sum or Sums of Money, or Tobacco,
or other Matter, by Virtue of any Power or Powers of Attorney,
either separate or contained in any such Bonds, commonly called
Judgment-Bonds, which shall be taken or executed after the End of
this Session of Assembly; nor shall it be lawful for the Justices of
any Court of Record within this Province, to give Judgment upon
any such Bonds by virtue of any such Power or Powers.

Session Laws
Judgments
not to be
confess'd by
Attorneys,
on Judg-
ment Bond,
taken after
the end of
the Session
out of Court

And whereas by an Act, entituled, An Act for emitting and mak-
ing current Ninety Thousand Pounds, Current Money of Mary-
land, in Bills of Credit, it is amongst other Things therein Enacted,
That the said Commissioners or Trustees, or any two of them, may
take Bonds or other Obligations, of able and sufficient Persons, for
any of the said Bills of Credit, at the Interest of Four Pounds per
Cent, per Annum, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Sum,
payable at such Time as shall be agreed on; which Bonds or Obli-
gations shall be payable to the Commissioners or Trustees, or their
Successors, and shall be of the same Force and Effect to all Intents
and Purposes, as Statutes Merchant or of the Staple, and shall and
may be proceeded on accordingly; whereby it is evident there need
no Judgments be entered up, or confessed upon such Bonds, which
makes the Expences thereof burthensome and grievous to the Par-
ties: For Prevention of such Evil for the future,
Be it Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Consent aforesaid,
That from and after the End of this Session of Assembly, when any
Person or Persons who have passed, or shall during the Continuance

Preamble
regarding
the Loan
Office

of the Act aforesaid, pass any Bond or Bonds for any Sum or Sums
in the said Bills of Credit, to the said Commissioners heretofore,
or for the Time being, and fail in Payment, and Need may require
suing any such Bond or Bonds for the better securing the Sums due,
it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners or Trustees
for the Time being, to cause the Clerk of the Provincial Court to
enter such Bond in the Records of the said Court, and thereupon

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make an Order signed by them the said Commissioners, or Trustees
for the Time being, to said Clerk, to make out such Execution as
they shall judge proper against the Body, Goods or Chattels, Lands
and Tenements, Rights or Credits, of such Debtor or Debtors, their
Surety or Sureties; which Order likewise shall be entered with such
Bond in the Records aforesaid, by the said Clerk. And the Clerk of
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Commis-
sioners to
give Orders
to the Clerk
of the
Provincial
Court