WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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able property of said county a sum sufficient to pay

for the same, not exceeding the sum of three hundred

dollars.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 372.

AN ACT to repeal section fifty-six of article seventy-

five of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled

" Pleading, Practice and Process," as enacted by

the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-two,

chapter three hundred and forty-six, and to re-

enact said section with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland. That section fifty-six of article sev-

enty-five of the Code of Public General Laws,

entitled "Pleading, Practice and Process," as en-

Repealed and
re-enacted.

acted by the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-

two, chapter three hundred and forty-six, be and

the said section is hereby repealed and re-enacted so

as to read as follows, viz :

56. It shall not be necessary, in the execution of

Resurveys.

any warrant of resurvey, to locate by actual survey

the whole of any tract or parcel of land; but it

shall be sufficient to locate, by actual survey, the

beginning or any call or other object by which the

location of the tract may be proved, and such por-

tion of the lines connected therewith as may be

necessary to show the parts of the land in contro-

versy, and the questions to be tried and proved by

witnesses to be examined in the cause; and all other

lines and objects may be located by protraction on

Located by
protraction.

the plats by the party making the survey; and such

locations, by protraction, when made by either

party, shall be conclusive evidence of the cor-

rectness of any object or line so located, unless

the same shall be differently located by the other

party either by actual survey or by protraction ;

and in case it is so differently located, the jury