JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 587

said judge or justice of the peace, with the same
effect as if said action had been regularly com-
menced in said court by due process of law, and
shall thereupon become a judgment of said court,
and execution thereon shall be awarded as upon ver-
dict, confession or non-suit, in the manner provided
in article seven of the Public General Laws of Ma-
ryland ; and in all proceedings under this act, whether before a judge or justice of the peace, or arbitrators,
costs shall be taxed as are now allowed by law in	Costs tc be
similar proceedings, and the same be paid equally	taxed.
by the parties to the dispute ; such award shall re-
main four days in court during its sitting, after the
return thereof, before any judgment shall be entered
thereon, and if it shall appear to the court within
that time that the same was obtained by fraud or
malpractice in or by surprise, imposition or decep-
tion of the arbitrators, or without due notice to the
parties or their attorneys, the court may set aside
such award and refuse to give judgment thereon.
Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 380.
AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of
Queen Anne's county to levy a sum sufficient to
pay Robert Goldsborough for certain work per-
formed in the office of Register of Wills of said
county.
Whereas Samuel Vickers, a former Register of
Wills for Queen Anne's county, departed this life
during his term of office sometime in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, leaving certain work in said	Preamble.
office unfinished and incomplete, and for which he
had been paid ; and
Whereas Robert Goldsborough, the Deputy Regis- ter of Wills, to the successor in office to the said	Preamble.
Samuel Vickers, by authority of said successor given