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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1825.

CHAPTER 120.

AN ACT relating to Evidence in Civil Cases.

Proof

regulated.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in every suit or action at law or in equity, in which it may be
necessary to prove the execution of any instrument of writing
whatsoever attested by a subscribing witness or witnesses, it
shall and may be lawful to prove the execution of such instru-
ment of writing in the same manner and by the same evidence
that the same might be proved if not attested by a subscribing
witness or witnesses ; Provided nevertheless, that nothing ia
this act contained shall be so construed as to extend to the
proof of the execution of any last will and testament or codicil
to the same.

CHAPTER 121.

AN ACT to repeal in part an Act, entitled, an Act directing the lime,
places and tuannei of holding elections for representatives of this state
in the Congress of the United States, and for appointing electors on the
part of this state, for choosing a president and vice-president of the
United States and for the regulation of the said elections, and also to
repeal the Act of Assembly therein mentioned, passed December the
fourteenth, seventeen hundred and ninety, chapter sixteen.

Determina-
tion by lot
repealed.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
so much of the aforesaid act as directs, that in case two or
more persons in the election of representatives to congress
have an equal number of votes, the governor and council shall
determine by lot from the candidates who shall be the represen-
tative, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 122.
A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of
sundry Insolvent Debtors, passed at November session, eighteen hun-
dred and five, chapter one hundred and ten.

Discharged
from custo-
dy in cer-
tain cases.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any insolvent debtor who has obtained or may obtain a
personal discharge under the original act and the supplements
thereto, and to which this act is a further supplement, shall be,
and he or she is hereby declared to be entitled to be discharged
from custody upon any attachment or other process which has
been or may be issued against him or her to enforce the exe-
cution of any decree which has been passed, or may be passed
in the court of chancery or ia any county court sitting as a
court of equity against such debtor, for any debt or claim con-
tracted before his discharge, under said insolvent laws ; and it
shall be the duty of the chancellor, or auy of the county court
as a court of equity, as the case may be, to order and direct the
discharge of such debtor from the custody aforesaid.
This and the 2d section are re-enacted in 1828, ch. 63.