HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

title "Chancery," sub-title "Jurisdiction," be
and the same is hereby amended by adding
thereto the following additional sections ;

SEC. — . In cases where proceedings have
been or shall be instituted for the renewal of
a lease containing a covenant for renewal, the
Court may pass a decree for the renewal of
such lease, which shall be binding upon all
persons who shall have become parties to such

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proceedings by summons or appearance, or
who shall have been proceeded against by
publication, as provided by section ninety-
eight of this article; and such decree shall be
sufficient to renew the title of all persons in-
terested under such lease according to their
respective interests and estates thereunder for
such additional term, under such rent and upon
such covenants, conditions and stipulations as
were provided in such lease.

Renewal of

lease.

SEC. — . Every renewal decree passed under
the provisions of the preceding section shall
be recorded among the land records of the
county or city where the land affected by such
decree may lie.

Approved April 1, 1886.

Recorded.

CHAPTER 152.

AN ACT to repeal section seventeen of chap-
ter two hundred and fifty-one of the acts
of the General Assembly of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-two, as repealed and re-
enacted, amended by chapter eighty-six of
the acts of the General Assembly of eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, in relation to the
charter of Keedyville, Washington county,
and to re-enact said section amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That section seventeen