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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1798.

exercise any of the powers given to the justices of the levy
courts, to be appointed and commissioned in virtue of this act,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Continued to 1801, and since continued by the annual continuing law.

CHAPTER 66.

*1715, ch,
39.

AH ACT to repeal certain clauses in the act,* entitled, an Act for the better
administration of justice in testamentary affairs, granting administra-
tions, recovery of legacies, securing filial portions and distribution of

t 1729, ch.
24.

intestates' estates, as also in the Act, t entitled, an additional and sup-
plementary act to the several acts for the administration of justice in
testamentary affairs.

Preamble.

WHEREAS substantial justice and sound policy require that
every peaceable denomination of Christians should equally enjoy
the blessings of a free government, secured by the united efforts
of all, and that no discriminations should subsist whereby a
citizen of one religious denomination is precluded from the en-
joyment of any civil right and advantage of any other religious
denomination : and whereas it appears to have been the true
meaning and intent of the founders of the declaration of rights,
and form of government, to abolish all odious and injurious dis-
tinctions, but doubts are entertained whether or riot any thing
contained in the said declaration, or form, be sufficient to abro-
gate, repeal or annul, the tenth clause or article in an act, enti-
tled, an act for the better administration of justice in testamenta-
ry affairs, granting administrations, recovery of legacies, secur-
ing filial portions and distribution of intestates' estates, and the
twelfth and thirteenth articles or clauses in an act, entitled, an
additional and supplementary act to the several acts for the
administration of justice in testamentary affairs ;

Clauses
repealed.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said tenth clause, article or section, of an act, entitled,
an act for the better administration of justice in testamentary
affairs, granting administrations, recovery of legacies, securing
filial portions and distribution of intestates' estates, passed at a
session of assembly in the year seventeen hundred and fifteen,
and also the twelfth and thirteenth clauses, articles or sections,
of an act, entitled, an additional and supplementary act to the
several acts for the administration of justice in testamentary
affairs, passed at a session of assembly in the year seventeen
hundred and twenty-nine, be, and are hereby declared to be,
repealed, abrogated, and henceforth to all intents and purposes
null and void.