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award, made by referees under rule of court, upon which judg-

ment or decree execution shall issue without stay, no matter affect-

ing the title of real estate however, shall be submitted to or arbi-

trated by the said committee under this or the preceding section ;

but the committee may direct in its awards the payment of the

costs and expenses of the arbitration, and the amount thereof

shall be embraced as a principal sum in the judgment or decree

to be rendered, if awarded to be paid by the party against whom

such judgment or decree is sought, no judgment or decree ren-

Without

dered on any award under this act shall be liable to be stayed, ex-

stay.

cept under allegation under oath of the defendant of manifest

fraud in the procurement or rendition of the award, or of a ma-

terial and substantial failure of the committee, specially alleged

and set forth, to comply with the by-laws of this act, in the hear-

ing and determination of the matter submitted; nor shall any

judgment or decree be quashed, modified or stricken out, except

upon satisfactory proof of the matters so required to be so alleged,

neither shall there be any appeal in any case from the original

judgment, order or decree, whereby after a hearing of the alle-

gations and proofs as aforesaid, the said original judgment or

decree shall be maintained.

SEC. 11. Andbe it enacted, That this act shall take effect im-

Effective

mediately from and after its passage; the General Assembly re-

serving to itself the right to alter, amend or repeal the same at

pleasure.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 337.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the mayor of Frederick city

to commit tramps to the Maryland house of correction.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the mayor of Frederick city shall have the same power,

authority and jurisdiction with reference to and in the case of

To em-

person s arrested as tramps within the corporate limits of Frederick

power.

city, as are conferred upon justices of the peace of Frederick

county, by chapter thirty-one, of the acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, passed at the January session eighteen hundred

and eighty, being sections two hundred and seventy-five, and two

hundred and seventy-six, of article twenty-seven, of the Code of

Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled " Crimes and Punish-

ments," sub-title " Vagrants and Tramps."

Effective

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

the day of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.