LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1837.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the clerk of county courts,

Clerk to

issuing such writ, shall, with said writ, forward to the clerk of

furnish copy
of docket

the county court to which said writ shall be returnable, a copy

entry*

of the docket entries of the court from which such writ issued,

and the court to which such writ shall be returnable shall pro-

ceed with the cause, as if the same had originated therein.

CHAPTER 253.

AN ACT relating to Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Protest

That a protest duly made by a notary public, of a promissory

prima facie
evidence of

note, for non-payment, or of a bill of exchange, whether foreign

non-accep-

or inland, for non-acceptance or non-payment, shall be prima

tance.

facie evidence of such non-payment of non-acceptance, and of

the presentment of such note for payment, or of such bill for

acceptance or payment, at the time and in the manner stated in

the protest.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That when such protest shall

Notice

state that notice of such non-payment or non-acceptance has

thereof
prima facie

been sent or delivered to the party or parties to such note or bill,

evidence.

and the manner of such notice, such protest shall be prima facie

evidence that such notice has been sent or delivered in the

manner therein stated.

CHAPTER 261.

AN ACT to limit and define the operation of Acts of the General Assembly

of Maryland.

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

Take effect

all acts of assembly which may be passed at any future session

1st June.

of the general assembly of Maryland, and which may relate to,

or affect the general administration of justice, or the right of

property in this state, shall operate and have effect, from and

after the first day of June next ensuing the time of the passage

of such act, and not before ; Provided, that the general assem-

Proviso.

bly shall have the power by express words to be inserted in any

such act, to declare that the same act shall have operation on

or after a different day.

CHAPTER 279.

AN ACT ceding to the United States the Jurisdiction of (he State of

Maryland in, to, and over certain Lands on Whetstone Point, near the

City of Baltimore.

WHEREAS, it is represented to the general assembly that the

Preamble.

United States have purchased certain lots of ground on Whet-

stone Point, near the city of Baltimore, in order the more effec-

tually to promote the ends of the government in the erection of

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