LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1832.

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CHAPTER 230.

AN ACT, entitled, an act to prevent the unreasonable delay of Justice, and
accumulations of unnecessary Law-suits in the Courts of this State.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of next September, where any judg-
ment of any county court, upon any cause of action that shall
thereafter accrue, shall be affirmed by the court of appeals, and
it shall appear to the said court of appeals that the appeal taken
or writ of error sued out in the case was taken or sued out merely
for delay, said court of appeals shall, over and above the interest
which by law the amount payable under and by virtue of said

Where tp-
peal has
been resort-
ed to mere-
ly for delay.

judgment shall carry, award damages for the delay at the rate of
four per centum per annum, on the said amount for the time
between the rendition of said judgment in the county court and
the said affirmance thereof.

Court shall
allow
4 per cent
damages.

CHAPTER 259,
AN ACT to repeal in part, an Act, entitled, 'an Act to prohibit the use of
Gill Nets in the Potomac River, and Patuxent River, during the period
therein mentioned.'

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland^ That
from and after ths passage of this act, an act, entitled, can act to
prohibit the use of gill nets in the Potomac river, and Patuxent
river, during the period therein mentioned,' be and the same is
hereby repealed, so far as the same prohibits the use of gill nets
in the Patuxent river, below the mouth of Hall's creek, and in
the Potomac river, below Maryland point.

Repeal in
part.

CHAPTER 260.

AN ACT Supplementary to an Act, passed November session, seventeen
hundred and ninety-nine, chapter sixty-eight, concerning persons hold-
ing offices of Profit and Trust, under the United States Government.

WHEREAS, doubts have arisen in regard to the true construc-
tion of the constitution of this state, in relation to persons
holding offices of trust or profit, by appointment to office, under
the authorities of this state, who may hold an appointment
under the general government, and for the more fully explain-
ing the same ; therefore,

Preamble.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That no
postmaster or his deputies ; no marshall, his deputy or deputies,
shall hold any office under the government of this state, or
exercise any of the functions of any office which he now has
or may hereafter receive from the executive of this state, after

Post-master
or deputy.

Prohibited
to hold
office.

the first day of May next, under the penalty of fifty dollars for
every such offence, to be recovered by indictment and fine in
any court of law, or in any county court in this state, where
the offence may be committed or the penalty incurred.

Penalty.