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entered shall first make oath, or affirmation, that he conceives
he has good cause for entering the same, and has pretensions
to the land, or a part thereof, containing in the certificate he is
desirous of caveating, and that the same is not entered for the
purpose of favouring the party, by enabling him to prolong the
time for payment of the composition money on the said certifi-
cate, or made at his request, or at the request of another person,
but for the purpose only of prosecuting by claim.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That no caveat hereafter enter-
ed, in either of the land offices of this state, shall remain in
force and operation longer than twelve months from the enter-
ing thereof, unless under special circumstances, the chancellor,
or judge of the land office on the eastern shore, as the case may
be, shall so order and direct.

Or remain
in force,
&c.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That all caveats already entered
in either of the said offices shall be brought to issue by subpoena,
or order of the chancellor, or judge of the land office, on the ap-
plication of the party, or by submission, on or before the first
day of January, eighteen hundred, unless under the special cir-
cumstances the said chancellor, or judge of the land office, shall
order a continuance ; and after the expiration of the time limi-
ted and expressed in this act, or by the order of the chancellor,
or judge of the land office, the said caveats, in either case before
mentioned, shall be wholly discontinued, and the ordinary pro-
ceeding had, as if no such caveat existed.

NOVEMBER, 1798.— CHAPTER 5.

To be
brought to
issue, &c.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act to ascertain the allowance
of Jurymen and Witnesses of the general and the several county and
orphans courts in this state.
Repealed by 1807, ch. 79.

CHAPTER 24.
AN ACT for the establishment of Vestries for each parish in this state.
Other laws are 1802, ch. 111; 1823, ch. 189; 1824, ch. 53; 1827, ch. 29.

*1797, ch.
94.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the
act for the establishment of select vestries, and the supplements
thereto, are inadequate to the exigencies of the protestant epis-
copal church in this state, for which the said acts were intended
to provide ;

Preamble.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland j
That vestries shall be chosen for each parish within this state
in the following manner : Every free white male citizen of this
state above twenty-one years of age, resident of the parish
where he offers to vote six months next preceding the day of
election, who shall have been entered on the books of the said

How ves-
tries are to
be chosen,
&c.