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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1829.

court's order, to the said ward, or to the husband, if she be
married, all the property of such ward in the hands of her guar-
dian, including bonds and other securities ; and on failure, his
office or guardian's bond, shall be liable, and he shall also be
liable to attachment and fine, not exceeding three hundred
dollars.

Her release
thereupon
confirmed.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That from and after the passage
of this act, any receipt, acquittance, release or final discharge,
which shall be executed before the orphans court of the county
where the estate shall have been settled by a female of the age
of eighteen years, to any guardian, executor or administrator,
shall have the same effect and operation in law in every respect,
and to all intents and purposes, as if such female were of the
full age of twenty-one.

CHAPTER 217.
AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to regulate the
issuing of Licenses to Traders, Ordinary Keepers and others, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, chapter one
hundred and seventeen.
See 1833, ch. 266, which construes this act, and prohibits a sale without
a license.

Explana-
tory.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said original act shall not be so construed as to require
keepers of oyster houses to take out a separate license for selling
liquors in quantities less than one pint.

Prosecu-
tions dis-
continued.
(prosecu-
tions)

(*court)

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all prosecutors* or suits in-
stituted in any county court of this state, or in the city [*] of
Baltimore, against any keeper or keepers of oyster houses, for
selling liquors in quantities less than one pint, be, and the same
are hereby directed to be discontinued ; Provided, that such
person or persons had a license for keeping an oyster house, at
the time such prosecutions or suits were instituted.

CHAPTER 219.
AN ACT relating to Evidence.

Printed
laws
declared
evidence.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, the private laws and reso-
lutions, published by the authority of this state, shall and may
be read in evidence, from the printed statute book, in any cause
in the courts of this state, in the same manner as the public
laws are now read in evidence.

CHAPTER 220
AN ACT to amend the Law in relation to Pleading, in certain cases.

Directions.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be law-