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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Effective,

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

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 392.

AN ACT to amend Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Courts," heading
"Superior Court, Court of Common Pleas and Baltimore
City Court," by adding thereto a new section, to follow Sec-
tion 173, and to be numbered Section 173 A.

New section.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws,
title "Baltimore City," sub-title "Courts," heading "Superior
Court, Court of Common Pleas and Baltimore City Court," be
and the same is hereby amended by adding a section thereto, to
follow section 173 thereof, to be numbered section 173 A, and
to read as follows :

Removal of
causes.

173 A. Whenever the record of proceedings in any suit, action
or issue pending in one of the courts of common law in the
city of Baltimore shall be directed to be transmitted for trial
to some other such court of the said city in accordance with
article 4, section 8, of the Constitution, it shall be the duty of
the clerk of the court from which the said record of proceed-
ings is so directed to be removed, to immediately deliver to the
clerk of the court to which the same is so directed to be
removed, all the original papers in the said cause, together
with a certified copy of all docket entries relating to the same,
which original papers and copy of docket entries shall consti-
tute such record of proceedings for the purposes of such trial ;
and it shall thereupon become the duty of the judge of the
court to which the said suit, action or issue shall be removed
immediately by special order to assign the same for trial to
such day, or in sequence to such other causes as he shall con-
sider just and proper.

Approved April 6th, 1894.