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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1812-3.

CHAPTER 195.
AN ACT to continue in force the Acts of Assembly which would expire
with the present session.

Acts
continued.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
such acts, and parts of acts of assembly, as would expire with
the present session of assembly, be and the same are hereby
continued for one year from the passage of this act, and until
the end of the next session of assembly which shall happen
thereafter.

MAY, 1813.— CHAPTER 6.
A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the valuation of the Real
and Personal Properly in the several Counties of this State, passed at

Ch. 191.

November session eighteen hundred and twelve.*

Registers
of the land
offices—
their com-
pensation.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the register of the land office for the western shore shall be
entitled to receive thirty dollars for every year, and that the
register of the land office for the eastern shore shall be entitled
to receive twenty dollars for every year, for their services under
the act to which this is a supplement, and that the same be
paid annually by the treasurer of the respective shores, out of
any unappropriated money in the treasury.

CHAPTER 21.

AN ACT relating to Lunatics, Idiots and Persons insane.

Chancel-
lor's power
in cases of
lunatics,
&c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the chancellor shall have full power, on the application of
any trustee of a lunatic, idiot or person insane, and receiving
proof to his satisfaction that it is necessary or proper to confine
such lunatic, idiot or person insane, to direct such trustee to
send the person under his charge to the hospital in the vicinity
of the city of Baltimore, provided he can be there received, to
remain until the further order of the court of chancery.

Maybe
removed
from hospi-
tals in
Philadel-
phia.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the chancellor shall have
power at any time to order and direct the removal to the said
hospital of any lunatic, idiot or person insane, who hath here-
tofore, under his direction, been sent to any hospital or recep-
tacle in Philadelphia, and to enforce his order as in other
cases.

Part of act
of 1797
repealed.

*Ch. 114.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the seventh section of the
act of assembly, passed at November session one thousand
seven-hundred and ninety-seven,* entitled, an act relative to
proceedings in the court of chancery and land offices, and to
the real estate of persons dying intestate, be and the same is
hereby repealed.