E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 244.
AN ACT making provision for Contested Elections,
pursuant to the forty-eight section of the third article
of the Constitution.
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Passed May
21, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all contested elections for Comptroller,
Commissioner of Lotteries, and Commissioner
of the Land Office, shall be decided by the House of
Delegates.
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To be decided
by House of
Delegates.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That all cases of contested
elections of any of the officers, not provided for
in the constitution, nor by the first section of this act,
shall be decided by the judges of the several circuit
courts, each in his respective circuit.
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Cases to be
decided by
judge of court.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That each judge of the
circuit court may adopt such mode of proceeding in
cases of contested elections, and prescribe such rules
for taking testimony and adjudging costs as to him
shall seem most satisfactory and least expensive.
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Mode of proceeding.
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CHAPTER 245.
AN ACT to protect the property of the Wife from the
debts of her Husband, as required by the thirty-eight
section of the third article of the Constitution.
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Passed May
24, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the property real and personal, belonging
to a woman at the time of her marriage, and
all property which she may acquire or receive after her
marriage, by purchase, gift, grant, devise, bequest or in
a course of distribution shall be protected from the debts
of the husband, and not in any way be liable for the
payment thereof; Provided, that no acquisition of property
passing to the wife from her husband after coverture,
shall be valid, if the same has been made or granted
to her in prejudice of the rights of his subsisting creditors.
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Property to
be protected.
Proviso.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That in order to effect
the objects of the foregoing section, the wife shall have
the benefit of all such remedies for her relief and security,
as now exist or may be devised in the courts of law
or equity of this State.
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Benefit of existing
remedies.
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