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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1838.

CHAPTER 245.

AN ACT relating to the Trial of Facts in the several Counties of this

State.

In case of

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

application

of either

That in any suit or action at law hereafter to be commenced or

party.

instituted in any county court of this state, or which may be

Affidavit

now pending in such county court, in which a suggestion in

filed.

writing shall be made by either party, according to the provi-

sions of law regulating the removal of causes from one court to

another, upon the order of said court being made for removal of

said suit or action, if the opposite party shall file an affidavit in

writing, suggesting that he, she or they, cannot have justice

done him, her or them, in the county to which the court shall

order the said suit or action to be removed, then the said court

Court may

shall remove the said suit or action to .such county as they,

order the

under all the circumstances, shall think will be most likely to

case to any
county.

effect justice between the parties.

Applied to

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in any action or suit now

cases that
have been
removed.

depending in any county court of this state, which may have
been removed to said county court, on the affidavit of either

party, it shall and may be lawful for the party at whose instance

the said suit was [not] removed, if he, she or they, shall think

that justice cannot be done him, her or them, in the said

county, to which said action or suit has been removed, to file

an affidavit, as now required by law, suggesting that he, she or

they, cannot have justice in said county, [ J where the said

county court shall remove the said action or suit to such county

as the. said court shall think will best tend to justice between

the parties to said suit.

CHAPTER 267.

AN ACT prescribing general regulations for the Incorporation of Manu-

facturing and Mining Companies

Regulations
lor future

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That whensoever, hereafter, any joint stock company, shall be

charters.

incorporated for the purposes of manufacturing, or for the pur-

poses of exploring, and mining for gold, coal, copper, iron, or

other mineral substances, such company shall be established

with the rights and privileges, and under the rules, regulations

and restrictions, herein after provided.

Power to
sue and be

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That said company shall have
power, under the name and style set forth in the act of incor-

sued.

porations, to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with,

Seal.

to have and use a common seal, and change the same at plea-

Hold estate,

sure, and may hold real estate, the number of acres, and the

county or counties, city or cities, town or towns, in which said

real estate is situate, to be specified in the said act of incorpora-