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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sioners shall cause said jurors, bailiffs and crier to be

paid at the end of each term of said court ; and said

witnesses upon the termination of the case in said

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court for which they were summoned.

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

In force.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 383.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Board of

Trade of the city of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the act passed at the January

session of the General Assembly, in the year of

Amended

our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and

and changed.

fifty-two, entitled " An act to incorporate the

Board of Trade of the city of Baltimore," the

same being chapter one hundred and fifty-eight

of the acts of said session, be and the same hereby

is amended by adding thereto the following sec-

tions, and changing the number of " section

four " in the said original act so that it shall be

numbered " section seven."

4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation

Organize

shall have power and authority to create and or-

court of arbi-

ganize within itself a " Court of Arbitration," for

tration.

the adjudication and settlement, according to the

principles of law, equity and commercial usage, or

of either, applicable thereto, of any and all con-

troversies concerning or growing out of contracts

of sale, manufacturing, or letting on rent ; of the

making or negotiating or transfer of bills of ex-

change, promissory notes, bills of lading, railroad,

warehouse or other similar receipts, and other

such commercial paper ; of guaranties of agency,

of bailment, of partnership, of insurance, of af-

freightment, or of any other transactions, of what-