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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 486.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amend-
ments section twenty-five of article sixteen
of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Chancery," as amended by the act of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-two, chapter two
hundred and seventy-two ; also, to repeal and
re-enact with amendments section ninety-
eight of the same article, as amended by the
act of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, chap-
ter four hundred and thirty-five ; also, to re-
peal and re-enact with amendment section
one hundred and two of the same article, and
also to add a new section to said article re-
lating to the power of the judges of the court
of appeals to modify and rescind the chancery
rules heretofore framed by them.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, That section twenty-
five of article sixteen of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Chancery," as amended
by the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-
two, chapter two hundred and seventy-two,

Repealed and
re-enacted.

entitled "An act to repeal sections twenty-five
and twenty-six of article sixteen of the Public
General Laws relating to chancery, and to re-
enact the same with amendments," and section
ninety-eight of the same article as repealed
and re-enacted with amendment by the act of
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter four
hundred and thirty-five, entitled "An act to
repeal and re-enact with amendments section
ninety-eight of article sixteen of the Code of
Public General Laws, entitled 'Chancery,' and
relating to service of notice on non-resident
defendants," and section one hundred and
two of the same article, be and they are hereby
severally repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read respectively as follows :
25. Upon the hearing of any bill for a divorce
the court may decree a divorce a vinculo matri-
monii for the following causes, to wit : First,
the impotence of either party at the time of the