WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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the party making the same, or to the handwriting

of the subscribing witnesses to the same, or any of

Credible proof.

them, taken and certified as directed in the pre-

ceding section, shall be good evidence to prove such

deed, bond, bill, note, or other instrument of writing.

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

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 21, 1882.

Chapter 78.

AN ACT to repeal section twenty-two of article

eleven of the Code of Public General Laws, title

" Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact," sub-

title " State's Attorneys," so far as the same is ap-

plicable to the State's Attorney for Worcester

county, and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments, so as to allow additional fees to said attor-

ney in certain prescribed cases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section twenty-two of arti-

ticle eleven of the Code of Public General Laws,

title " Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact,"

Repealed and

sub-title " State's Attorney," so far as the same is

re-enacted.

applicable to the State's Attorney for Worcester

county, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-

enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

SECTION 22. In all civil or criminal cases where

the State's Attorney for Worcester county appears

and tries cases, when it is his duty to appear and

try cases as now may be, or may hereafter be pre-

scribed by law, the Judges of the First Judicial Cir-

cuit of Maryland, or any one of the said judges

may, in their or his discretion, allow such additional

Additional

fees to the State's Attorney of said county, in addi-

fees

tion to what is now allowed by law, in each and

every case, as the said judge or judges may think

just and proper, to be levied by the County Com-

missioners of said county, provided that no addi-

tional fees shall be allowed where the total appear-

ance and trial fees allowed by law to the said State's