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plement, such surplus shall be paid oyer to the negro at the end
of the term for which he or she may have been sold; and the
said negro as hereinbefore provided for, shall leave this State in
ten days after the expiration of his or her term, or he or she
shall be deemed to have come into this State a second time, and
be as liable as if he or she had so done.

ARTICLE LXVII.

Notaries Public.

The Act of 1862, ch. 103, adds the following section to this Article:

SEC. 1. It shall not be lawful for any notary public to sign
and issue any protest not previously stamped with the stamp of
the Comptroller, and any notary public who shall violate this
provision shall, for every such offence, be liable to a fine of five
hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment in the Circuit
Court for the county or in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, as
the case may be, one-half for the use of the State and one-half
for the informer; but in no action or other proceeding in law or
equity shall any protests be rejected as evidence, if otherwise
admissible, on account of the absence of the stamp of the Comp-
troller therefrom.

ARTICLE LXXV.
Pleadings, Practice, and Process.

REMOVAL OF CAUSES.

The Act of 1862, ch. 174, repeals sections 72, 73, and substitutes the following:

SEC. 1. When any suit or action, issues, petition, presentment
or indictment, shall be removed to an adjoining county, accord-
ing to the provisions of the seventy-first section of this article,
it shall be lawful for the party who was not the party at whose
instance the same was removed, to file an affidavit as before re-
quired in the court to which the removal is made, suggesting