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that court shall have jurisdiction in which proceedings shall have

been first commenced.

59. Where defendants reside in different counties or in a county
and the city of Baltimore, the court where anyone of the defend-
ants resides shall have jurisdiction, and the bill or other proceed-
ings may be filed or had in such court.

60. When the defendants or any of them reside in a different
county from that in which the land lies, which is to be affected
by a suit, the court of the county or city where any defendant
resides, or where the land or any part thereof lies, shall have
jurisdiction, and the bill or other proceedings may be filed or had
in such court.

61. Where all the defendants are non-residents, the bill shall
be filed in the court of the county or city where the property to
be affected by such bill or some part thereof lies, or shall be at
the time the suit is instituted.

62. Where a decree has been made for a specific performance
of a contract or the conveyance of land, or for the sale of land,
the court passing such decree shall have the same power to exe-
cute said decree, or compel a compliance therewith in cases where
the land, property or parties reside or lie in different counties
from that in which the decree was passed, as if the said parties,
land or property resided and lay in the county where the decree
was passed.

63. In all cases where a bill shall be filed for the purpose of
vacating any deed of manumission to take effect in future of any
negro on the ground of fraud, on the rights of creditors, and for
the sale of such negro, for the payment of the debts of the
grantor, it shall not be necessary to issue a subpoena for said
negro, but in lieu thereof the court shall appoint some gentleman
learned in the law as guardian ad litem of said negro, whose duty
it shall be to appear and make such defence for the said negro as
the said negro might if he were free, and the court shall have full
power, after a full hearing of the cause, to pass such a decree as
might be passed in cases where all the parties were freemen, and
they shall direct all the costs and charges of the proceedings,
(including a fee of twenty or thirty dollars to the guardian in
its discretion,) to be paid by the complainant and to be taxed and
allowed in his bill of costs.

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