To provide for the relief of Insolvent Debtors from imprisonment for costs in certain cases, passed February 19th, 1831. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That any insolvent debtor, who may apply for a personal or final discharge, under the laws of this state, providing for the relief of insolvent debtors, shall be entitled to include in the schedule of his debts, all costs adjudged on which shall accrue after judgment rendered in any penal action against him.-And to be relieved from the payment thereof in the same manner, and upon the same conditions, that he may be discharged from the debts by him contracted: Provided, always, that the penalty imposed by the judgment in such action shall have been first remitted by the Governor and Council of this state. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act entitled, An Act for the relief of sundry Insolvent Debtors, passed February, 1881. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be necessary for any person who may apply for the benefit of the insolvent laws of this state, to produce before the county court, or any judge thereof, or any judge of the orphans' court, or commissioners of insolvent debtors, where such applicant resides, any evidence of his confinement in jail; but the said court, judge or commissioners, as the case may be, shall proceed in all respects, as if such evidence had been produced.. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the county court, or any judge thereof, or any judge of the orphans" court, or commissioners of insolvent debtors, to whom applica tion may hereafter be made by any person, for the benefit of the insolvent laws of this state, such applicant having complied with the provisions of the insolvent laws of this state, in every particular, except producing evidence of his confinement in jail, to grant to such applicant, in writing a personal discharge from arrest on any civil process, until the return day of such applicant's insolvent papers. SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of every sheriff, constable, or other officer of this state, upon the arrest of any defendant, on a capias ad respondendum, capias ad satisfaciendem, or any other civil process, and the said defendant being unable, or refusing to satisfy the claim on which, said process was issued, to produce the body of said defendant, before the county court, or some judge thereof, or some judge of the orphans' court, or commissioners of insolvent debtors of the County where the said defendant resides, and then and there tender to said defendant an opportunity to comply with the provisions of the insolvent laws of this state, except producing evidence of his confinement in jail, and upon the said defendant being unable, or refusing to comply with the provisions of the insolvent laws as aforesaid, and not otherwise, the said sheriff, constable, or other officer shall be authorized to proceed with said defendant, as if this act had never passed. AN ACT To abolish imprisonment for debt on certain judgments rendered by justices of the peace. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the fourth of July next, it shall not be lawful for any justice of the peace, or Courts of Justice, on the affirmance of any judgment of a justice of the peace, to issue a capias ad satisfaciendum, or execution against the body of any debtor, who may have been a bona fide resident of the state one year, and of the county where the judgment may have been rendered four months, on any judgment rendered by a justice of the peace for any debt not exceeding thirty dollars, contracted after the date aforesaid. Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed to prevent the imprisonment of any person against whom fraud has been alleged and proved. INDEX TO THE DECISIONS OF THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND, AND OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. A. An action may be maintained (By act of 1827, c. 70, the trus- solvents are distributable ac- (Md.) ENT 1. ASSIGNMENT.-The vo- 2. To render void a deed of 3. An assignment made by an B. 4. An assignment of property (But by the law (of Md.) of BAIL. Upon a return of non est, to a Bonds with condition for the appearance of insolvent C. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. 1. Since the adoption of the |