EL1HU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

not exceeding ten thousand dollars, for pro-
curing and erecting a monument to the memory
of Francis Scott Key for the purpose of com-
memorating his eminent military service and
his patriotism while in the defence of his
country during the memorable' occasion already
referred to, in conformity with the appreciation
expressed of those services by the resolution of
the mayor and city council of Baltimore of
March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight; and that the mayor and city
council of Baltimore are hereby authorized to
provide the necessary means for defraying the
expenses incidental to carrying this resolution
into effect.

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

Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 529.

AN ACT to add a section to article seventy-five
of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Pleadings, Practice and Process," to follow
immediately after section seventy of said arti-
cle, and be numbered seventy A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

Effective.

bly of Maryland, That the following section be
and the same hereby is added to article seventy-
five of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Pleadings, Practice and Process," to follow
immediately after section seventy of that article,
and to be numbered seventy A.
70A. Whenever at the trial, hearing, or any

Additional
section.

other stage of an action, suit, petition, cause or
matter at law or in equity, it shall appear to the
court that the attendance or testimony of any
person or witness, or the production of any pa-
per, document or thing not produced by any
party is necessary to the purposes of justice, the
court may require any party to produce such
paper, document or thing for inspection by court

May require
its production.