LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1835.

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CHAPTER 384.
AN ACT relating to Insolvent Debtors of the City and County of Baltimore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be lawful for any person who shall have resided or
remained in the city or county of Baltimore, for sixty sucessive
days immediately preceding his application, to apply for the
benefit of the insolvent laws, to the commissioners of insolvent

Persona re-
sidents of
Baltimore
city or
county 60
days may
have benefit

debtors for the city and county of Baltimore, and under such
application to be discharged, to every effect as if such applicant
had resided two years in this state, immediately preceding his
application, subject however, except as to length of residence,
to all the conditions and regulations applicable to other cases
of petitions to such commissioners for the benefit of the insol-

On condi-
tions.

vent laws ; And provided however, that the said commissioners
be satisfied that the applicant did not come into this state for
the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the said insolvent laws ;
and that it shall not appear to the commissioners, that the ap-
plicant has been guilty of fraudulent pretences, or representa-

Proviso.

tives* in contracting any of the debts for which he shall be liable
at the time of his application ; in which case he shall not on
his said application, be entitled either to a personal or final
discharge.

(*represen-
tations)

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act con-
tained shall be so construed as to extend to Samuel Thompson,
of the District of Columbia, now confined in the jail of Balti-
more county.

Samuel
Thompson
excepted.

CHAPTER 397.

AN ACT Supplemental to an Act, entitled, an Act to establish Magistrates'
Courts in the several Counties of this State, and to prescribe their Juris-

diction, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.*

* Ch. 201.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all the counties of this state, where the magistrates1
courts have not been organized, and in each election district
where the said courts are not organized, the County courts shall
have jurisdiction over all cases which by law was vested in said
county courts before the passage of the law to which this is a

County
court juris-
diction to
continue tilt
these courts
are orga-
nized

supplement ; Provided however, that no cause which shall have
been instituted in the county courts, before the organization of
the magistrates'courts as aforesaid, shall in any manner be
effected by the subsequent organization of said courts; And
further provided, that this act shall not affect any district in
any county in which said court shall have been organized.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the several
county courts of this state, shall receive and record the qualific-
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Record
qualifica-