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	all matters relating thereto throughout the whole
	State. The respective Circuit Courts for the re-
	spective counties of this State, and the respective
	Judges thereof, out of Court ; the Superior Court of
	Baltimore city, the Court of Common Pleas in said
	city, the Circuit Court of Baltimore city, and Balti-
	more City Court, and the Judges of said respective
	Courts, out of Court, and the Judge of the Court of
	Appeals from the city of Baltimore, shall have the
	power to grant the writ of " Habeas Corpus," and
	to exercise jurisdiction in all matters pertaining
	thereto, when the person whose confinement, deten-
	tion, restraint or committal is complained of, or is
	in question, is confined, detained, restrained from
	his lawful liberty, or committed, within the limits of
	their respective judicial circuits.
	3. Any person committed, detained, confined or
	•restrained from his lawful liberty within this State
	for any alleged offence, or under any color or pre-
	tence whatsoever, or any person in his or her be-	May com-
	half, may complain to the Court or judge having	plain.
	jurisdiction and power to grant the writ of " Habeas
	Corpus" in the judicial circuit, within the territorial
	limits of which such person has been so committed,
	or is so detained, confined or restrained, to the end
	that the cause of such commitment, detainer, con-
	finement or restraint may be inquired into, and the	Inquire into
	said respective Courts or judges to whom such com-	cause.
	plaint is so made shall forthwith grant the writ of
	" Habeas Corpus," directed to the officer, or other
	person, in whose custody, or keeping, the party so detained shall be returnable immediately before the
	said Court or judge granting the same.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the thirteenth
	section of said article forty-three of the Code of	Amended
	Public General Laws of this State, title " Habeas	and re-enact-
	Corpus," be amended and re-enacted, so that the	ed.
	same shall read as follows :
	13. If the Court granting the said writ of "Habeas
	Corpus" shall not be in session at the return thereof,
	or if the judge granting the said writ of " Habeas	To whom re-
	Corpus" shall be absent at the return thereof, the	turned.
	said writ shall be returned before any Court or