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aforesaid, wherein it shall be lawful for said tenant to contest
the said valuation in regard to the amount thereof, and such

Proceedings
in ease of

replevin.

action of replevin shall in all respects, be proceeded with, and
subject to rendition of the same verdict or verdicts, as in cases
of replevin for goods and chattels distrained for money rent, the
jury assuming as, and in place of, such money rent, the said
estimated value, or such amount less or more than that, as they
shall deem, that such value should have been determined to be,
by said appraisers.

CHAPTER 185.

AN ACT to repeal the second section of an Act passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and twenty- eight, chapter ninety-eight.

Repeal

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the second section of an act passed at December session, eigh-
teen hundred and twenty-eight, chapter ninety-eight, be and
the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 203.

AN ACT relating to Appeals and Writs of Error, and to Proceedings in
County Courts.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, doubts have been entertained whether a cause
can be proceeded with in a county court, after a dismissal of an
appeal or writ of error, prematurely and irregularly taken or
sued forth, from or upon an interlocutory judgment, or any
order or act of such court antecedent to and not followed by a
final judgment in said cause.

Case of
dismissal of
appeal.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in all cases where any appeal or writ of error has been or shall
hereafter be dismissed by the court of appeals, when taken or
sued forth, from or upon any interlocutory judgment of a county
court, or any order or act of said court antecedent to any final
judgment of such court, and no final judgment shall have been
rendered by such county court, it shall be the duty of said
county court, on application of any of the parties in such cases,
and on such applicant filing in said county court, a certificate
from the clerk, and under the seal of said court of appeals, of
such dismissal, containing a short copy of the judgment of
dismissal, or the docket entries of such cases of error or appeal,
to order continuances in said cases, to be entered from term to
term, from the term when such interlocutory judgment, order,
or act, shall have been rendered or passed up, to the term when
such application shall be made, and that thereupon it shall be
the duty of said county court, to cause said cases to be pro-

Proceedings
directed.

ceeded in, and with, in the same manner and to every effect,
intent and purpose, as if no such appeal or writ of error had
intervened, and as if said cases had been actually continued term