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LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 35.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, section
(225) two hundred and twenty-five of Article sixteen (16)
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Chancery," sub-
title "Witnesses and Testimony," as said section was repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, by chapter 86 of the Acts
of 1890.
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- SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section two hundred and twenty-five (225) of
Article sixteen (16) of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Chancery," sub-title "Witnesses and Testimony," as said
section was repealed and reenacted with amendments, by
chapter 86 of the acts of 1890, be, and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as
follows :
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Repeal.
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225. The court shall, on application of a party in interest,
or may, of its own motion, order, that instead of the mode
of taking testimony as provided in the foregoing sections, -the
witnesses, or any of them, shall be examined orally in open
court in the presence of the judge or judges thereof, as to all
or any of the facts or matters relevant in the cause or proceed-
ing, and the evidence so taken shall be written down as
delivered by the witnesses by such person, and in such manner at
the court may have by special order or general rule directed,
and when so written down, shall, with such documentary proof
as shall have been with it offered and admitted, be filed as part
of the proceedings, to be used as if taken before an examiner;
or if the court shall have so ordered, such evidence shall be
reduced to writing bytcounsel in the same manner as bills of
exceptions now are at common law, and after the same shall
have been signed by the judge or judges before whom the tes-
timony was taken, shall, with the documentary proof at the
same time offered and admitted, be filed as part of the pro-
ceedings to be used as if taken before an examiner.
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Examination
of witnesses.
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