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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

County Com-

Anne Arundel county, and the county commissioners

missioners re-
quired to levy

are hereby authorized and required to levy such sum
as may be necessary to pay the said register of wills

the expenses of making said copies and indexes,

which said expenses shall be at the rate now allowed

by law for such services to register of wills and the

costs of the docket books in which said copies and

indexes may be made.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1880.

CHAPTER 135.

AN ACT to repeal section twenty-five of article

seventy-five of Code Public Laws, title "Pleadings,

Practice and Process," sub- title " Practice," and

re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section twenty-five of article

Repealed and

seventy-five of the Code of Public General Laws,

re-enacted.

title ''Pleadings, Practice and Process," subtitle

" Practice," be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

No action

SEC. 25. No writ or action shall abate because of

shall state

the misnomer of any plaintiff or defendant named

therein, but the court, on suggestion, supported by

the affidavit of the plaintiff or defendant, or other

proof to the satisfaction of the court, that by mis

take the plaintiff has sued in a wrong name, or that

the party summoned in virtue of said writ or action

is, in fact, the party intended to be sued by such

writ, or in such action may, at any time before judg-

Amend with

ment, direct the writ or any of the proceedings to

true name

be amended by inserting therein the true name of

any plaintiff or defendant, at the discretion of the

court; this section to apply to foreign attachments,