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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 258.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments

section ten of an act to incorporate the Mutual

Fire Insurance Company of Somerset and Wor-

cester counties, passed March thirteenth, eighteen

hundred and sixty-seven.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section ten of the act entitled an act

Repealed and
re-enacted.

to incorporate the Mutual Fire Insurance Company

of Somerset and Worcester counties, passed March

thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven be, and

the same is hereby repealed, and re-enacted to read

as follows :

10. And be it enacted, That in all cases in which

Entered up in

property may be insured under this act, and when

docket.

the party or parties insuring may have real estate,

the premium note or notes which may be executed

by the person or persons insuring, shall, if the presi-

dent and directors of said company deem it expedi-

ent to require the same to be secured by judgment,

entered up in a docket kept for that purpose in the

office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the county

in which said property insured may be, which said

party or parlies insuring shall either appear in per-

son, or shall direct the clerk by an instrument of

writing, signed by the said party or parties, and at-

tested by one witness to enter up judgment for the

amount of his, her or their premium note, and which

judgment shall be a lien on the real estate of the

party or parties so insuring for entering up," of

which judgment the Clerk of the Circuit Court,

where such judgment may be entered, shall receive

Fee.

twenty-five cents and no more, and in case losses

shall be incurred by said company, as soon as the

loss or losses shall be ascertained in the manner here-

inafter provided, and the proportion of loss to be

paid by each member ascertained, in case such

member or members shall fail, refuse or neglect to

pay his, her or their proportion of loss within sixty

days from the notification thereof, it shall be lawful

Issue execu-

for said company to issue an execution against the

tion.

real estate bound by such judgment for the amount