LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1834.

an appeal as aforesaid, shall produce to the justice of the peace,
authorized and required to grant the appeal as aforesaid, satis-
factory evidence of his or her being executor or executrix,
administrator or administratrix, and the said justice shall pro-
ceed to take bond and security from the executor or executrix,
administrator or administratrix as aforesaid, and to grant the
appeal within the same time, and subject to the same provi-
sions, as are now prescribed by law, in cases of appeal from
judgments of justices of the peace.

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CHAPTER 124.
AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Free
Negroes and Slaves, passed at December sessron, eighteen hundred and
thirty-one, chapter three hundred and twenty- three.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for any citizen of that part of the
District of Columbia, which was ceded by the state of Mary-
land to the United Slates, owning land in any part of this
state, or any citizen of the state owning property within the said

Residents
on the line
of the dis-
trict.

District, or hereafter acquiring it, to remove any slave or slaves
for life, being natives of this state or that part of said District,
and being the property of such citizen, into this state, and from
this state, back into that part of said District, at the will and
pleasure of such owner, without any such slave or slaves being
thereby entitled to their freedom, any law to the contrary not-

Allowed
egress and
ingress of
their slaves.

withstanding : Provided always, that nothing in this act con-
tained, shall be construed to give power or authority to any
citizen of the District of Columbia, to remove any slave 01
slaves from the said District into this state, which shall have
been or may be brought into the said District, from any of the
United States, except this state.

Restriction.

CHAPTER 126,

AN ACT relating to the computation of the stay of Execution on Judg-
ments.

WHEREAS, doubts are entertained as to the construction of
the acts of assembly, relative to stay of execution, under super-
sedeas of judgments rendered by justices of the peace, and a
diversity of practice relative thereto is understood to exist among
justices of the peace ; for remedy, wherefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the stay of execu-
tion, as allowed by law, under supersedeas, in cases of judg-
ments rendered by justices of the peace, shall be reckoned and
computed from the date of the rendition of the judgment, any
law, usage, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Direction
to magis-
trates.