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ment, or violation of the twenty-first, twenty-third, twenty-eighth
and twenty-ninth articles of the Declaration of Eights, or any of
them: or of the existing, or any future provisions of the code
touching the writ of habeas corpus, or proceedings thereunder,
shall be commenced within three years from the time the cause
of action accrued; and all actions on the case for words, and
actions of assault, battery and wounding, or any of them, within
one year from the time the cause of action accrued; this section
not to apply to such accounts as concern the trade or merchan-
dise between merchant and merchants, their factors and servants
which are not residents within this State.

ARTICLE LXIII..

Militia

The Act of June 24, 1861, ch. 79, repeals sections 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 112, of this
Article, and adds the following:

SEC. 1. No action or other proceeding shall be instituted or
taken for the enforcement of any bond whatsoever heretofore
given under the laws of this State, for the custody or return of
any arms heretofore delivered or loaned by the State to any
volunteer or other militia regiment, company, officer, or soldier,
until the same shall be hereafter provided for by law, and any
such action or proceedings now pending shall be and they are
hereby required to be dismissed.

The Act of 1862, eh. 276, enacts as follows:
2. The sum of fifty thousand dollars or so much thereof as
may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the relief of the
families of the Maryland Volunteers, whether raised under the
authority of the State or the United States, who are now in the
service of the United States, or who may hereafter be mustered
in such service, to be disbursed in the manner and by persons
designated in the following sections of this act.

8. A Board of Relief is hereby created, consisting of three
commissioners or managers, who shall serve without remunera-