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Assent given
to bequest.
In force.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
ted to probate in the Orphans' Court of Wicomico
county, on the twentieth day of September, eighteen
hundred and seventy, gave and bequeathed to George
Lowe, of said county, for the use and benefit of the
Old School Baptist Church in Salisbury, in said
county, the sum of one hundred dollars; therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the assent of the Legislature of this
State is hereby given to carry into effect the bequest
in said last will and testament of said Lydia Lowe,
late of Wicomico county, deceased.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 1, 1872.
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Repealed.
Substituted.
Divorces a
vinculo
matrmonia.
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CHAPTER 272.
AN ACT to repeal sections twenty-five and twenty-
six of article sixteen of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, relating to Chancery, and to re-enact
the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth
sections of article sixteen of Public General Laws,
entitled " Chancery," relating to divorces, be and
the same are hereby repealed, and the following sec-
tions substituted in lieu thereof:
SEC. 25. Upon the hearing of any bill for a di-
vorce, the court may decree a divorce a vinculo matri-
momi for the following causes, to wit: first, the im-
potence of either party at the time of the marriage;
secondly, for any cause which, by the laws of this
State, render a marriage null and void ab with;
thirdly, for adultery; fourthly, when the court
shall be satisfied by competent testimony that
the party complained against has abondoned the
party complaining, and that such abandonment has
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