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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1829

Proviso.

execution, and remaining in his hand unsold ; Provided) that
nothing herein contained shall operate to effect the legal rights
of any person whatsoever, other than such insolvent or neglect-
ing sheriffs and coroners.

CHAPTER 159.

AN ACT relating to the issuing of Commissions to take Testimony in
certain cases.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by the act, entitled, a further supplement to the
act, entitled, an act for enlarging the powers of the high court
of chancery, passed in eighteen hundred and twenty-six,
chapter two hundred and twenty-two, it is enacted that all
commissions which shall hereafter be issued to take testimony

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in causes depending in [*] high court of chancery and county
courts, sitting as courts of equity, shall be issued and directed
to two persons to be named and appointed by the said court or
courts, or any judge thereof, instead of being issued to four
commissioners in the manner previously provided by law; and
whereas, said act has been construed by some of the county
courts of this state, to restrain them from issuing a commission
to one person only in any cause, although the parties thereto
consent :

Explana-
tory.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
hereafter said act shall not be construed to restrain the issuing
of a commission to one person only in any cause, if the parties
in the cause consent thereto.

CHAPTER 166.
AN ACT to prevent unnecessary accumulations of Costs on all actions or
suits at law in the County Courts of this State.
Supplement, 1829, ch. 186, modifying the stay.

Trial term
&c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all actions or suits at law instituted in the county courts
of this state, after the term next succeeding the passage of this
act, shall stand for judgment or trial at the second term after
the defendant or defendants shall have been arrested upon the
capias ad respondendum, and upon judgments rendered or ob-
tained at such second term, the defendant or defendants shall

Stay.

be entitled to a stay of execution, till the last day of the ensu-
ing term, with the privilege of superseding the same for six
months, in the manner now allowed by law, at any time within
two months after the expiration of said stay, and with the
power of prosecuting an appeal or suing forth a writ of error,

Exception.

as authorized by law prior to the passage of this act ; Provided
nevertheless, that nothing herein contained, shall be construed
to extend to cases of the city docket of Baltimore county court.