HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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tion be and the same is hereby added to art-
icle sixteen of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Chancery," to follow immediately
after section one hundred and thirty-nine of
said article, to be put under the sub-title
"Questions of Law," and be numbered 139 A,
viz :

QUESTIONS OF LAW.

139 A. If it appear to the Court, either from
the pleadings or otherwise, that there is a ques-
tion of law in any case, which it would be
convenient to have decided before any evi-
dence is given, or any question or issue of fact

To add sec-
tion.

is tried, the Court may make an order accord-
ingly, and may direct such question of law to
be raised for the opinion of the Court, either
by special case or in such other manner as the
Court may deem expedient; and all such pro-
ceedings as the decisions of such question of
law may render unnecessary, may therefore
be stayed.

To decide a
point of law.

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

Approved April 1, 1886.

Effective.

CHAPTER 335.

AN ACT to give the sanction of the General
Assembly to certain bequests to the Mary-
land Baptist Union Association and the trus-
tees of the Seventh Baptist Church of Balti-
more, contained in the last will and testa-
ment of A. Fuller Crane of Baltimore city.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the sanction of the
General Assembly of Maryland is hereby given
to the bequests to the Maryland Baptist Union
Association and to the trustees of the Seventh

To make
valid.