GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

Sec. 7. And, be it enacted. That any power of attorney,

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receipt, acquittance, release, or final discharge, executed or

acknowledged according to the provisions of this aet, may

Such instruments

be recorded in the office of the register of wills of the coun-

shall be recorded

ty in which the guardian was appointed or gave bond, or in

which the executor or administrator obtained letters testa-

mentary, or of administration; and that a copy of any such

power of attorney, receipt, acquittance, release, or final dis-

charge acknowledged and recorded as aforesaid, duly attest-

ed under the seal of the office in which the same is record-

ed, shall, at all times hereafter, be admitted as evidence to

Copy made evi-

prove such power of attorney, receipt, acquittance, release,

dence.

or final discharge; but every such power of attorney, re-

ceipt, acquittance, release, or final discharge, shall remain

and be retained, and preserved in the office of such register

of wills, and shall not be delivered to any person or persons

whomsoever.

CHAPTER 306.

An act relating to the recovery of Small Debts.

Passed Mar.13,1832

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Appeals from

land, That no appeal from a judgment rendered by a jus-

judgment of jus-
tice of peace not

tice of the peace, shall be dismissed because of a petition

to be dismissed

not being filed, except on default of the appellant to file the

Exception:

same after rule laid in court, requiring the filing of it, and

two days, (inclusive of day of service) notice to appellant

of such rule; and every case of such appeal not dismissed
on default as aforesaid, shall be heard and determined if the

Such appeal shall

be heard

petition shall be filed at any time before the hearing and

trial, in the same manner and to the same effect as if the

said petition had been filed in the time noiv required by

law.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That no judgment rendered by

Judgments of jus-

a justice of the peace, on a judgment, or decision of the

tices of the peace
in case of pilots not

board of examiners of pilots, shall be reversed or set aside

to be set aside for
want of form,&c.

for want of form in such judgment or decision of said board;

nor for want of averments in such judgment or decision

necessary to render the same full and precise as to parlies,

claim, dates or other particulars, if by examination of any

of the board or other persons as witnesses, the said defects

can be supplied, and said matters and particulars ascertain-

ed—and in all the said case? of defective judgment or de-

cisions of such board, the court, on the appeal, taking said

Rule for deciding
such appeals