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newspaper or papers as they may direct, at least two months
previous to their proceeding to execute said commission.

What shall
be deemed
sufficient
notice, &c.

SEC. 5L And be it enacted, That in all cases where by this
act any notice or publication is required, a statement made in
the proceedings that due notice according to law has been given
or to that effect, shall be prima facie evidence that notice was
given according to law.

Acts
repealed,
reserving
all rights,
&c.

SEC. 52. And be it enacted, That an act, entitled, an act to
direct descents, and the several supplements thereto, and the
sixth section of the act, entitled, an act relative to proceedings
in the court of chancery and land offices, and to the real estates
of persons dying intestate, passed at November session, seven-
teen hundred and ninety-seven, chapter one hundred and four-
teen, be and the same are hereby repealed; Provided, that all
estates which may have descended before the passage of this
act, and during the continuance of the acts hereby repealed, and
all rights acquired thereunder by any person or persons whatso-
ever, shall be subject to the rules and regulations mentioned and
contained in the said acts hereby repealed, and the same proceed-
ings may be had under those acts as to all such estates and rights,
in the same manner as if the said acts had not been repealed.

CHAPTER 194.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of sundry
Insolvent Debtors, passed at November session eighteen hundred and
five.
See note to the original law, 1805, ch. 110, ante page 530.

Trustee
may be
discharged.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases where a trustee hath been, or hereafter shall
be, appointed by virtue of the act to which this is a supple-
ment, or by virtue of the act, entitled, an act relating to insol-
vent debtors in the city and county of Baltimore, it shall and
may be lawful for the said trustee, at any time after his appoint-

Provisos.

ment, to be discharged from his trust ; Provided, that the said
trustee shall petition the county court of the county in which he
was originally appointed, setting forth his desire to be released
from the further execution of the said trust, and in all other
respects comply with the provisions of this act; And provided
also, that it shall not be lawful for the said court to discharge
any trustee as herein before mentioned, unless they shall be
satisfied by competent testimony that it is for the interest of the
creditor of such insolvent that the said trustee should be so dis-
charged, and unless the said trustee shall also produce the
assent in writing of two-thirds in value of the said creditors to
such discharge.

County
court upon
such dis-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duly of the
said county court, upon such discharge being made thereupon,