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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and on the
first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-
nine, respectively ; and the said comptroller
shall require and receive vouchers from said
visitors and governors for the proper expendi-
ture of said moneys as hereby appropriated.

"Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 409.

AN ACT to repeal sections nineteen and twenty
of article seventy-five of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Pleading, Practice and
Process," and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Repealed and
re-enacted.

sembly of Maryland, That sections nineteen and
twenty of article seventy-five, of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Pleading, Practice
and Process," be and the same are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :
SEC. 19. It shall be lawful for the defendant,

Legal com-
peneation.

or for one or more of several defendants, in all
actions (except actions for assault and battery,
false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious ar-
rest or prosecutions for criminal conversation,
or debauching of the plaintiff's daughter or ser-
vant), to pay into court a sum of money by way
of compensation or amends; and when two or
more causes of action are joined in one suit or
action, it shall be lawful for the defendants or for
one or more of several defendants, to pay into
court a sum of money by way of compensation
or amends, for and on account of either or all of
said causes of action.
SEC. 20. The plaintiff after payment of money,

At liberty to
except.

into court for and on account of any cause of
action in any suit or action, in which said pay-
ment shall be lawful under the provisions of the
preceding section, shall be at liberty to reply