JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1833.

tates are within the provision of the eighth section 'of the
act to which this is a supplement,) that in filing any such
petition there shall be paid to the clerk of Baltimore coun-
ty court the sum of two dollars, to be paid over and accoun-
ted far by said clerk, as is required and provided in respect

CHAP. 173.

of the fees mentioned in said eighth section, and to be ap-
propriated for the same purposes as said fees.

Fees

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That where any permanent
Trustee or Trustees of an insolvent debtor of the city or
county of Baltimore has instituted or shall have instituted

In case of suit by

trustee

any suit or proceeding as such Trustee or Trustees, in law
or equity, and any Trustee or Trustees has been or shall
hereafter be appointed by Baltimore county court in place
of such permanent Trustee or Trustees, by virtue of the
third section of the act of December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-two, chapter two hundred and three, enti-
titled, A further supplement to the act entitled, an act far
the dispatch of business in Baltimore county court, it shall

And another trus-
tee is appointed

be lawful for such neir Trustee or Trustees to continue and
prosecute such suit or proceeding in the name of the form-
er Trustee or Trustees, to the use of such new Trustee or
Trustees, or for such new Trustee or Trustees to be made
and entered as plaintiff or plaintiffs, in the place of such
former Trustee or Trustees, as if no such appointment bad
been made; and such appointment shall not abate and shall
not in anywise affect such suit or proceeding; and that if
after such appointment, such suit of proceeding shall be
conducted in the name of such former Trustee or Trustees

Suit to continue

who shall depart this life, the new Trustee or Trustees
shall be entitled to be made and entered, and appear as
plaintiff or plaintiffs in place of the deceased: and so where
any such former Trustee or Trustees shall have died before
such appointment, and the suit or proceeding shall not have
been abated before the application of any new Trustee or
Trustees in anywise appointed to be made, and appear as
plaintiff or plaintiffs as aforesaid.

So in case of death

&c.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That where any such form-
er Trustee or Trustees shall be, or is, or are now defend-
ant or defendants in any suit or proceeding as aforesaid, it
shall be lawful for tiie plaintiff or plaintiffs on suggesting
the fact of the appointment of the new Trustee or Trus-

Cases now pending

tees aforesaid, to cause such new Trustee or Trustees to
be made defendant or defendants in such suit or proceed-
ing in place of such former Trustee or Trustees, by the
same manner and proceeding, and subject to the same rules
and consequences as are now had and used by law in case
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The new shall be
substituted for
former trustees