LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1830.

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is a further additional supplement, as imposes a fine of fifty
dollars for any violation of the provisions of said section, be and

the same is hereby repealed ; Provided, that such repeal shall :
not prevent the prosecution and trial of any presentment or in-
dictment for any breach of the section aforesaid.

CHAPTER 185.

AN ACT to prevent unnecessary expense and delay in prosecuting Appeals
from Courts exercising Equity Jurisdiction in this State.

Proviso.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That no appeal shall hereafter be allowed from any decree or
order of the chancery court, or county court sitting as a court
of equity, unless it be a final decree, or order in the nature of a
final decree ; and that upon appeal from a final decree, or order
in the nature of a final decree, within the time limited by law

Appeals to
be allowed,
fee.

for such appeals, all provisions,* orders and decrees, passed in
the cause, shall be open in the appellate court in the same man-
ner as if such previous orders and decrees had been as hereto-
fore appealed from within nine months from the time of the

(*previous)

passingof the same ; Provided always, that the execution of any
decree or order of the chancery, or any county court for the
sale, conveyance, or delivery of possession of real or personal
property, or the payment of money, or the bringing of money
into court, or the appointment of a receiver, or the opening of
any way public or private, from which the right of an immediate
appeal is taken away by this act, shall not be suspended or
staid, unless a prayer for an appeal be entered on the docket, or
filed among the proceedings in the cause, and bond in such
penalty as the chancellor, or county courts, (as the case may be)
may prescribe, with good and sufficient security, to be approved
by the chancellor or county court, shall be given.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in such cases where the
names of all the complainants do not appear in the bill of com-
plaint, or where their number is so great as to render it conve-
nient* or inexpedient to make them obligees in the bond to be
taken as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the chancellor,
or county court, as the case may be, to cause the state of Mary-
land to be named as a party obligee in said bond, on which a suit
or suits may be instituted by any person interested therein, in the
same manner as on other public bonds; and an office or sworn
copy thereof shall be competent evidence in any court of law or
equity in this state.

State- may
be named
as a party
obligee in
certain
cases.
(*inconve-
nient)

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all such parts of any act
or acts of assembly, heretofore passed, as are repugnant to, or
inconsistent with, the provisons of this act, be and the same is
hereby repealed.

Repeal.