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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-

Accept deed

bly of Maryland, That the Governor be and he ia
hereby authorized to accept a deed of transfer to this

of transfer.

State of said " Fikesville Arsenal property," to be

held by it in trust as specified in said act, and that

he communicate to the Secretary of War, forthwith,

the assent of the State so to accept the same.

When effec-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

tive.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved ...... 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 6.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact the first and third

sections of article forty-three of the Code of Pub-

lic General Laws of this State, title " Habeas

Corpus," as the same were enacted by the act of

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-

six, and to amend, and re-enact as amended, the

thirteenth section of the same article, and to add

an additional section to said article forty-three,

providing for taking the opinion of the Court of

Appeals in certain cases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the first and third sections

Amended

of article forty-three of the Code of Public General

and re-enact-

Laws of this State, title " Habeas Corpus," as the

ed.

same were enacted by the act of eighteen hundred

and seventy-six, chapter three hundred and seventy-

three, be amended, and re-enacted as amended, so

that the same shall read as follows :

Grant writ of

1. The Court of Appeals and the Chief Justice

"Habeas Cor-

of this State shall have the power to grant the writ

pus."

of " Habeas Corpus," and to exercise jurisdiction in