LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1820.

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CHAPTER 168.

AN ACT relating to the Removal of Causes for Trial, within the Sixth
District.

SEC. 1 . Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That no cause, civil or criminal, removed upon suggestion from
one county to another within the sixth judicial district, shall be
taken up for trial, until all the business originating in the county
to which such cause may be removed, ready for trial, and which
shall require the intervention of a jury, shall be tried, dismissed,
continued or otherwise disposed of for that term.

Causes re-
moved not
to be taken
up until
business
originating
in the
county
shall be
tried.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
clerks of the counties within the judicial district aforesaid, to
which causes may be removed for trial, to note upon the minutes
of proceedings of the court, the day on which the court shall
have disposed of the business of the county ready for trial as
aforesaid, and originating therein, and to keep an account of the
number of days employed in the transaction, trial, determina-
tion, or other disposition of causes so removed, and to make
out and transmit to the levy court of the county from which
such causes may have been removed, an account of the legal
charges for attendance of the jurors, bailiffs, and other officers
of court, during such term, so as aforesaid employed during the
trial of such removed causes, which amount it shall be the duty
of the levy court of the county where such cases originated, to
levy upon the assessable property in their respective counties, to
be collected as other county charges are collected, and paid over
by the levy court where such causes may have originated to
the levy court of the county to which such causes may be
removed for trial, or to their order, to be by them paid over to
the jurors, bailiffs, and other persons entitled thereto.

Clerk to
note
minutes of
proceed-
ings, &c.

CHAPTER 161.

AN ACT for the better regulation of Chancery Proceedings in certain cases.
See 1785, ch. 72, ante page 208.

SEC. I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland ',
That wherever a subpoena hath issued or shall hereafter issue
from the chancery court, or from any county court exercising
chancery jurisdiction, on a bill filed or to be filed in any of the
said courts respectively, and such subpoena hath been or shall
hereafter be duly returned summoned, as to all or any of the
defendants therein named, and the defendant or defendants, or
any of them so returned summoned, shall fail to appear in
person or by solitor, according to the exigency of the said writ,
or having so appeared shall fail to put in a good and sufficient
answer on oath to the said bill, within the time or times which
are or may be prescribed by the rules of the court from which

Where ft
subpoena
has issued
on a bill
filed, foe.
and return-
ed summon-
ed court
authorized
to enter in-
terlocutory
decree, &c.