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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

title quieted to the same and for the purpose has agreed to pay

to the treasurer of Hyattsville for public purposes the sum of two

Preamble.

hundred dollars for a quit-claim deed from the commissioners of

Hyattsville to said p'roperty, excepting a small strip fronting forty-

feet on Washington avenue and forty feet on the county road at

the westerly end of the further west of said reservations and con-

nected by a straight line; therefore

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

That the president of the board of commissioners of Hyattsville

is hereby authorized and empowered to quit-claim and convey to

Charles E. Beach, his heirs and assigns, the interest of said board

in the above described property, as far as the same has been con-

To convey

veyed to said Charles E. Beach by said Louis D. Wine and George

J. Johnson, reserving to the town of Hyattsville its ownership in

said excepted tract the right to use said excepted tract for road

or other public purposes being hereby given said town, and such

ownership and right of use to be conclusively admitted by said.

Beach by his acceptance of said quit-claim.

Effective.

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

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 424.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections one

hundred and seventeen and one hundred and twenty-one, of

article sixteen, of the Code of Public General Laws, title " Chan-

cery," sub-title " Pleading, Practice and Process."

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

That sections one hundred and seventeen and one hundred and

twenty-one, of article sixteen, of the Code of Public General Laws,

title " Chancery," sub-title " Pleading, Practice and Process," be

and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as

follows :

117. The circuit courts for the several counties of this State,

and the circuit court of the city of Baltimore, and the circuit

Courts of

court number two of the city of Baltimore, as courts of equity,

equity

shall be deemed and taken to be always open for the transaction

of business therein, and the several regular terms of said courts

for the return of process and other practical purposes, shall be of

two months' duration, and shall commence in the counties on the

first Monday of January, of March, of May, of July, of Septem-

ber, and of November of each year; and in Baltimore city shall

commence on the second Monday of January, of March, of May,

of July, of September, and of November of each year.