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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 371.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article
twenty-nine of the Code of Public General
Laws, entitled "Courts," providing for render-
ing judgment for the damages awarded by the
jury upon the ratification of inquisitions for
condemning lands.

Additional.

SECTION \ . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the following additional sec-
tion be added to Article twenty-nine of the Code
of Public General Laws entitled "Courts:"

82. In all cases of proceedings to condemn
lands, for any purpose whatever, under any law
or charter, upon the return and ratification of the
inquisition by the proper court, and in all cases in
which inquisitions may have been heretofore returned
and ratified, the said court shall render a judgment

Condemn —
change of form

against the persons or corporation for whose use
the condemnation may be so made in favor of the
owners named in the requisition for the amount of
the damages awarded by the jury, and unless
within ninety days after condemnation ratified,
the same shall be abandoned by written notifica-
tion to said owners, execution may immediately
thereafter issue on said judgment, as in other
cases of judgments rendered in courts of law.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from, and after its passage.

Approved April 4, 1870.

CHAPTER 372.

AN ACT to Appropriate a sum of Money to pay
the claim of A. 0. N. Matthews.

Treasurer to
pay.

SECTION 1. And be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the Comptroller be and
he is hereby directed to draw his warrant upon
the Treasurer to pay A. C. N. Matthews for ser-
vices performed by him as auctioneer under order