JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1833

which the said trespass or damages shall be alledged to have been done or committed, and if the said enclosures shall not be good and sufficient, according to the true intent and leaning of this act, he or they shall not make out any award or assess any damages whatever.

CHAP. 121;

Sec. 6, And be it enacted, That in all cases of action of trespass quare clausum fregit or legal process of any kind hereafter to be sued out, commenced or prosecuted in the counties aforesaid, to recover damages for trespass upon lands in said counties by any kind or description of live stock, the defendant or defendants may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence under this act, and the plaintiff or plaintiffs in all and every such suit, shall be non-suited and mulct in costs, whenever it shall be clearly proven by legal and competent testimony, that the lands whereon the said trespass shall be alledged to have been done or committed, was not inclosed according to the provisions of this act.

This law may be plead

CHAPTER 120.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, an act f or the relief of Edward W. Belt, former Collector of Prince George's county, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty two, chapter one hundred and fifty-three.	Passsed Feb. 24,1834
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the act to which this is a supplement, be, and the same is hereby continued in full lorce and operation for and dur- ing the space or term of one year, from and after the first day of May next, any thing in the said act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.	Term extended

CHAPTER 121.
An act for the benefit of Sally M. Martin.	Passed Feb. 21,1834
WHEREAS, the provisions of the act passed at this ses- sion, entitled, a further supplement to an act relating to free negroes and slaves, are believed not to embrace the objects asked for by the petition of Sally Martin, of the state of	Preamble