THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

pay to the treasurer of the Baltimore Manual Labor School
for Indigent Boys, the sum of five hundred dollars, out
of the monies received by him from the school fund,

CHAPTER 359.

CHAP. 360.

An act in favor of Benjamin G. Harris, of Saint Ma-
ry's County.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the Treasurer of Maryland be, and he is hereby

authorised to pay to Benjamin G. Harris, or order, the
amount of a draft on the Treasury of Maryland, dated
Port Tobacco, March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and
forty-six, drawn by Judge Clement Dorsey, for the
amount of his quarter's salary, due as Judge on the first
of October, eighteen hundred and forty-six, in favor of
said Benjamin G. Harris, of Saint Mary's county.

CHAPTER 360.

Pased March
10, 1847.

Treasurer to

pay.

An act relating to Arrests in Civil Cases in the State of
Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this bill,
it shall not be lawful to arrest and hold to bail on mesne
process, any person who may be a non-resident of this
State at the time of issuing of process against such per-
son or persons, for any debt contracted without the lim-
its of this State.

Passed Much
10, 1847.

Not lawful to
arrest

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any such non-res-
ident shall be so arrested, he may apply by petition in
writing, to the judges of the court before whom the writ
by virtue of which he may have been arrested may be
returnable, or to either of them, setting forth that he is
not a resident of the State of Maryland, and that the debt
or cause of action for which he was arrested, was not
contracted within this State; and on the production of
satisfactory proof of the material allegations of such pe-
tition, it shall be the duty of the said judges or judge, to
order the discharge from custody of such non-resident.

Non-residents

may apply to
judge, &c.