ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE GOVERNOR

of some one who is not in existence, and for
whom if in existence he would be a trustee."
78D. Contingent characters or rights may be

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the subject of such a declaratory suit and decree
if they are actually disputed, but not otherwise.

If disputed.

78E. No declaratory suit can be brought nor
decree passed to establish a fact or facts that
are without legal consequences.
78F. A declaratory decree made under the
foregoing sections shall be binding only on the

Right of ap-
peal.

parties to the suit, persons claiming through
them respectively; and where any of the parties
are trustees or the persons for whom, if in exis-
tence at the date of the decree, such parties
would be trustees, and the court may, in its dis-
.cretion, make a declaratory decree as to the re-
spective rights and legal characters of all or any
of the parties to the suit.

Cannot bring-
suit.

78G. Such decree shall be subject to the same
right of appeal as other decrees of courts of
chancery.

Shall be bind-
ing.

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

Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 479.

AN ACT to empower the county commissioners
of St. Mary's county to levy a sum of money
for the building of a school-house in the sixth
election district of said county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Effective.

sembly of Maryland, That the county commis-
sioners of St. Mary's county be and they are
hereby empowered to levy for the building of a
school-house, for white children, in the sixth
election district of St. Mary's county, such a
sum of money as in the opinion of said commis-
sioners may be sufficient for the purpose herein
specified.

Empowered
to levy.

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

Approved April 5, 1888.

Effective.