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respective counties in which said real estate may be, the judg-

Return of

ment, execution, and all the papers and proceedings in the case

judgment;
and papers .

or cases in which said sale may be, or may have been made,

within six months after the return of the officer making said

Record di-

sale, and it shall be the duty of the clerks of the several courts,

rected, &c.

to record said judgment, execution, and all the papers and pro-

ceedings, and the same when recorded, to be evidence in all

courts of justice in this state.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That from and after the passage

Case of two

of this supplement, where any two of the justices of any of

justices
being in-

said district courts, shall be interested in any matter of which

terested.

the said court would have jurisdiction if said two justices did

not form a part of said court, the remaining justice may and

shall hold jurisdiction of said matter, and constitute the court

for that purpose, and that any suit now pending before the said

courts in which any two justices as aforesaid shall be therein

interested, shall be heard, and determined by the remaining

justice as aforesaid.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That if all three of the justices

Case all

of any magistrate's court shall be interested in such matter as

three are.

aforesaid, then the said matter may be investigated, and juris-

diction thereof entertained by any neighbouring district court of

the same county.

DECEMBER, 1837.— CHAPTER 23.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to prohibit the owners of

Vessels, and others, from navigating the same, by and under the sole

command of Negroes or Mulattoes, passed at December session, eigh-

teen hundred and thirty-six, chapter one hundred and fifty.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland^ That

Act extend-

the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement shall

ed to cases
of hired

apply to any person or persons owning in whole or in part, or

vessels.

having hired in whole or upon shares, any schooner, sloop, or

other vessel registered, enrolled or licensed, under the laws of

the United States; and if any such owner or owners, or other

person or persons, of any such schooner, sloop or other vessel,

shall cause the same to be navigated contrary to the provisions

of the said act, or of this act, such schooner, sloop or other

vessel, together with all her tackle, apparel and furniture, or the

value thereof, shall be forfeited, and disposed of, according to

Forfeiture.

the provisions of the said act ; Provided, that the citizens of

Baltimore

Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties, be and they are hereby

and Anne
Arundel

declared to be exempt from the operation and effect of this act.

excepted.

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