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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1639.

*1805, ch.
110.

DECEMBER, 1829.— CHAPTER 31.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act for the
relief of sundry Insolvent Debtors.

Costs.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful
for any county court, in which a petition for the benefit of the
insolvent laws of this state may be depending, upon the answer
of any insolvent debtor to interrogatories exhibited, or upon
the trial of any issue or issues by a jury upon any allegations
which may be filed against him, or upon the continuance of
such petition to any term subsequent to that to which such
interrogatories may be exhibited or allegations filed, to award to
the creditor or creditors exhibiting such interrogatories or filing
such allegations, or to the petitioner) his or their reasonable
costs, in like ample manner as they are now authorized to do,
in all other cases depending in said courts.

*1820, ch.
191.

CHAPTER 32.
A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to amend and reduce
into one system the Laws to Direct Descents.

Provisions
extended.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the provisions of the twenty-ninth section of the act of assem-
bly, entitled, au act to amend and reduce into system the laws
to direct descents, be, and they are hereby extended to all cases
in which any person or persons may have or shall hereafter
become the purchaser or purchasers of, or in any other manner
become entitled to, the undivided interest and estate of the
heirs, or any one of them, of any person who may have died,
or shall hereafter die intestate, seized of real estate in the
manner contemplated by the act to which this is a further sup-
plement.

CHAPTER 38.
An ACT to repeal a part of the Act, passed at November session, seventeen
hundred and ninety-three, chapter fifty-seven.

Repeal.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
so much of the act of assembly, entitled, an act respecting the
punishment of criminals, passed at November session, seventeen
hundred and ninety-three, chapter fifty-seven, as authorizes and
directs the sale at public auction of any person committed for
non-payment of any penalty, fine or forfeiture, be, and the same
is hereby repealed.