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	Chapter 42. AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section nine of article two of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Abatement."
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As- sembly of Maryland, That section nine of article two of the Code of General Laws, title "Abate- ment," be repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows : 9. No case in which an appeal has been prayed or writ of error applied for, whether the record	Repealed and re-enacted.
	shall have been transmitted to the court of ap- peals or not, shall abate by the death of either of the parties to such appeal or writ of error if the heir, executor or other proper party to be made a party shall make the necessary sugges- tion, and appear to such appeal or writ of error for the purpose of prosecuting or defending the same ; and if the heir, executor or other proper party to be made a party shall fail to make such suggestion and appear to such appeal or writ of error within twenty days after the beginning of the term to which the appeal or writ of error is taken, it shall be competent for the other party	When not to abate.
	to such appeal or writ of error to make such suggestion, and thereupon process shall imme- diately issue to the party named in said sugges- tion to appear by a day to be therein named, and be made a party to such appeal or writ of error. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall	When process shall issue.
	take effect from the date of its passage, but shall not be held to apply to any case pending at the date of the passage of this act. Approved February 21, 1888.	How effective.