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charged and sent out for collection in dollars and cents, and not
otherwise, and all taxations of the costs of suits shall hereafter
be made in dollars and cents.

CHAPTER 52.

An ACT to continue certain Acts of Assembly.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all and every act or acts of assembly which are limited by
law to continue to the end of the present session of assembly, or
which would expire during the same, or before the end of the
next general assembly, be and they are hereby severally conti-
nued until the thirty-first day of October next, and until the
end of the next Session of assembly thereafter, unless such as
are repugnant to, or inconsistent with, any law which may have
passed during the present session of assembly, and subject to
any alterations which have been made therein.

CHAPTER 55.

AN ACT concerning the Chancery Court.
A Supplement, 1811, ch. 189.
See 1785, ch. 72, ante page 208.

Acts con-
tinued.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in any suit in the chancery court in which the chancellor
for the time being may have been counsel, or have given his
opinion, and on that account may conceive that he cannot con-
scientiously act thereon, and shall so certify in writing, the
same shall be heard and determined by the chief judge of the
third judicial district, or by the court thereof, at the election of
the complainant, and all interlocutory and other orders in such
cases shall be made by the said chief judge, which determina-
tions and orders shall have the same effect as if made by the
chancellor, and such decree shall be subject to appeal in like
manner.
See 1805, ch. 65, sec. 19, ante page 500,
The same advantages given to the respondent by 1811, ch. 189.

Chief judge
of third
judicial dis-
trict to hear
and deter-
mine cer-
tain suits.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the chancellor may require
the opinion of the chief judge of the said district on any ques-
tion of law which may arise in any suit in chancery, and in
which, according to the usual practice, such opinion may be
thought necessary; and that it shall be the duty of the said

Chancellor
may require
his opinion
on any point
of law, &c.

chief judge to express, in writing, such opinion ; Provided,
that in case of such opinion being given, or in the case of any
decree or order made by the said chief judge, or by the court,
he being sitting therein, the said chief judge shall withdraw
from the bench upon the deciding of the same case before the
court of appeals.

Proviso.