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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 86.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, section two

hundred and twenty-five, of Article sixteen, of the Code of

Public General Laws, title "Chancery," sub-title "Witnesses."

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

Repeal.

That section two hundred and twenty-five, of Article sixteen, of

the Code of Public General Laws, be and the same is hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows,

viz:

225. If the court in the exercise of its sound discretion to serve

the ends of justice, shall so order on application of a party, or its

motion, instead of the mode of taking testimony as provided in

the foregoing sections, the witnesses, or any of them shall be ex-

amined orally in open court in the presence of the judge or judges

thereof, as to all or any of the facts or matters relevant in said

cause, and the evidence so taken shall be written down as deliv-

ered by the witnesses, by such person and in such manner as the

May ex-
amine or-

court may direct, and shall be filed in the cause as part of the

ally.

proceedings thereof to be used as if taken before an examiner; or

if the court shall so direct, such evidence shall be reduced to

writing by counsel in the same manner as bills of exception now

are at common law, and after the same shall have been signed by

the judge or judges before whom the testimony was taken, shall

be filed in the cause as part of the proceedings thereof to be used

as if taken before an examiner.

Effective.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 11, 1890.

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT to pay the expenses of the commission called "The

State prison removal commission," appointed by the governor

of the State as directed by resolution number five, passed at

the January session, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, of the

General Assembly of Maryland.

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

That the comptroller of the treasury of Maryland be and he is

To pay.

hereby directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the

State to pay Wilbur F. Jackson, Jackson C. Gott, Charles S.

Adams and Robert P. Brattan the sum of four hundred and

ninety-five dollars, the amount actually expended ly them for