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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of the Court, be applied to the purpose for
which such judgment, decree, decision or
order was given, and if the judgment, decree,
decision or order shall be for the payment of
costs, and the party or parties against whom
the said judgment, decree, decision or order
for the payment of costs shall be rendered
shall be entitled to a distributive share of the
estate in which the suit is involved, the Court
may order said costs to be paid out of said dis-
tributive share.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1886.

CHAPTER 165.

AN ACT to repeal section ten of article thirty-
seven of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled "Evidence," sub-title "Attendance
and Pay of Witnesses," and to re-enact the
said section with amendments.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That section ten of
article thirty-seven of the Code of Public

Repealed and
re-enacted.

General Laws, entitled "Evidence," sub-title
"Attendance and Pay of Witnesses,'' be and is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows, viz :

10. There shall be allowed to each witness
attending the Circuit Courts or Orphans' Courts
of this State, the sum of one dollar for each
day such witness shall attend for the discharge
of his duty, besides itinerant charges to be
allowed to witnesses coming from other coun-
ties; provided, that every such witness shall
obtain from the Clerk of the Court wherein
he attended, or from the Register of Wills, if
such attendance was before an Orphans' Court,