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Effective.
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SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 6th, 1894.
CHAPTER 453.
AN ACT to complete the proceedings in all chancery cases
that were destroyed by the burning of the court house in
Worcester County, Maryland, in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-three.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Docket
entries to be
evidence
where orig-
inal papers
were burnt.
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Maryland, That in all cases where any of the papers, includ-
ing bills of complaint, answers, demurrers, pleas, replications,
joinder of issue, evidence taken by examiners, trustee's bonds,
trustee's report of sales, auditor's reports, and all other papers
filed in the proceedings in chancery cases, have been destroyed
by fire, the docket entries in the chancery docket of the Circuit
Court for Worcester county, shall be received in evidence in
all cases by the said court, and by any other court of this State,
with the same conclusive force and effect as if any or all of
the original papers in any such chancery case or cases were in
existence and actually produced; and the docket entries in the
chancery docket of the said Circuit Court for Worcester county,
certified to, under the seal of the said court; by the clerk
thereof, shall be received and admitted for all purposes as
conclusive evidence of the regularity of the proceedings
therein, before any of the judges of this State, in the absence
of the said chancery docket.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all chancery
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Where title to
real estate is
involved.
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cases in the said Circuit Court for Worcester County, in which
the papers have been destroyed by tire, and in which the title
to real estate is involved, and no deed has been executed and
delivered to any purchaser or purchasers thereof, by any
trustee or trustees appointed by the said court, the said court,
sitting in equity, is hereby authorized and empowered, upon
examination of the docket entries in snch case or cases, and
being satisfied that any such purchaser or purchasers aforesaid
have paid or secured the purchase money, and are entitled to
a deed for such real estate, shall pass an order directing the
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