468 NOTARIES PUBLIC. [ART. 67.

stay of all proceedings until the costs of the former petition, and
all reasonable damages and expenses sustained or incurred by the
defendant, to be ascertained by the court, shall be paid or secured
to be paid.

93. If the said costs, damages and expenses shall not be paid,
or secured to be paid, within six months after they shall be ascer-
tained by the court, the petition shall be dismissed.

94. "Where any petition for freedom shall be filed by any
petitioner who was or shall be in the county or city where the
said petition is filed by permission of his owner, and the owner
shall not be an actual resident of the county or city where the
petition is filed, the court in which such petition is filed shall
upon suggestion in writing, supported by competent testimony,
that the person thus claiming to be the owner of the petitioner
had actually held the said petitioner in bondage, and that the
said petitioner was in the county or city where the said petition
is filed by the permission of his owner, and that the said owner
is not and was not an actual resident of the county or city where
and when the said petition was filed, permit the said owner to
appear and defend the said suit, and order and direct the record
of the proceedings on such petition to be transmitted to the court
of the county or city where the said owner resided at the time
when the said petition was filed, and the court to which the same
is transmitted shall hear and determine the same in like manner
as if the petition had been originally filed therein.

ARTICLE LXVII.
Notaries Public.

SEC. 1. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, shall appoint and commission a competent number
of persons of known good character, integrity and abilities, citi-
zens of the United States and who have resided in this State two
years previous to their appointment, as notaries public for the
State of Maryland, to reside within such place or places within
this State as the Governor shall in and by their respective com-
missions designate; but there shall not be at anytime more than