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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

File record.

poration, for record with the clerk of any Court
of this State having jurisdiction of the subject
matter, and the person against whom said enforce-
ment is sought, and thereupon it shall be the duty
of said Court, on motion or application, ex-parte,
at any time after ten days from the filing of the
award, to enter judgment or decree thereupon, as
upon a final award made by referees under rule of
Court; upon which judgment or decree execution
shall issue without stay. No matter affecting the
title of real estate, however, shall he submitted to
or be arbitrated by the said Committee under this

Payment of
costs.

or the preceding section, but the Committee may
direct in its award the payment of the costs and
expenses of the arbitration, and the amount there-
of shall be embraced as a principal sum in the
judgment or decree to be rendered; if awarded,
to be paid by the party against whom such judg-
ment or decree is sought. No judgment or decree
rendered on any award under this Act shall be
liable to be stayed, except upon allegation, under
oath of the defendant of manifest fraud in the
procurement or rendition of the award, or of a
material and substantial failure of the Committee,
specifically alleged and set forth, to comply with
the by-laws or this Act in the hearing and deter-
mination of the matters submitted; nor shall any
such judgment or decree be quashed, modified or
stricken out, except upon satisfactory proof of the
matters so required to be so alleged. Neither

Appeal.

shall there be any appeal in any case from the
original judgment, order or decree, whereby, after
a hearing of the allegations and proofs as afore-
said, the said original judgment or decree shall be
maintained.

In force.

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect immediately from and after its passage,
the General Assembly reserving to itself the right

Amend.

to alter, amend or repeal the same at pleasure.
Approved March 31, 1870.