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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1835.

CHAPTER 346.

AN ACT relating to Equity Proceedings.

Suits in 4th
and 6th ju-
dicial disk
may be
removed to
high court
of chancery.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in any equity suit now pending or hereafter instituted in
either of the county courjs of the fourth and sixth judicial dis-
tricts, either or any of the parties to such s.uit may suggest in
writing, that he desires that the said suit may be removed to the
high court of chancery, and upon the filing of said suggestion
with the clerk of the court in which such suit may be pending,
and also filing therewith the affidavit of some party to the suit,
or the affidavit of the solicitor or attorney of some party, that
removal is not desired to produce delay, but to expedite the de-
termination of the suit, it shall be the duty of the clerk forth-
with to transmit the bill, answer, exhibit, and all other proceed-
ings in such suit, to the high court of chancery of this state,
and the high court of chancery shall proceed in such suit, and
hear and determine the same, in the same manner as if such
suit had been originally instituted in the said high court of
chancery.

Appeal on
injunctions
provided.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That when any injunction which
has heretofore issued, or shall hereafter issue from the court of
chancery, or any county court as a court of equity, or where
any receiver or receivers have been, or shall be ordered or ap-
pointed by the court of chancery, or county court as a court of
equity, it shall be lawful for the defendants in the case, or any
of them, to appeal from the granting of such injunction, or from
the refusal to dissolve the same, or from the order, ordering or
appointing such receiver, the answer of the defendant or defen-

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Trial
directed.

dants being first filed to* the court of appeals, of the shore where
such injunction shall have been issued, or receiver appointed,
and it shall be the duty of the said court of appeals, at the first
term of the sajd appeal, to hear and determine the same, and to
pass such order in the premises, as to it may seem right.

Bond re-
quired.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That during the pendency of the
appeal provided by the preceding section, and from the time
such appeal shall have been taken, the order granting or refus-
ing to dissolve the injunction, except in cases of injunction to
stay waste, and the order appointing a receiver, shall have no
operation, nor shall it be necessary for the party appealing, to

Bond.

give bond with security to stay the proceedings, except in cases
wheres the party obtaining injunction, or having the receiver
appointed had given bond with security to indemnify the
opposite party from the consequences of the injunction, or such
appointment of a receiver, but when such security has been,
or shall be given by the opposite party, then the party appellant
shall give bond with surety or sureties, to be approved by a