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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

election districts numbers eleven, twelve, nineteen, twenty-four
and twenty-six, if either party to any cause in any suit or action
or issues pending, shall make a suggestion in writing, supported
by the affidavit of such party or his counsel, or proper evidence,
that the party cannot have a fair and impartial trial before said
justice where such suit or action or issue is pending, then the
said justice of the peace before whom such suit or action or
issue is pending, shall forthwith order and direct the proceed-
ings in any such suit or action or issue, to be transmitted to
some other justice of the peace appointed and qualified for and
in any one of the said election districts eleven, twelve, nineteen,
twenty-four and twenty-six ; and each party shall be entitled to
one removal unless both parties shall agree to have said suit,
action or issue tried before some certain justice of the peace in
election districts numbers eleven, twelve, nineteen, twenty-four
and twenty-six, then said cause shall be moved to the said jus-
tice of the peace having been agreed upon by the parties.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 412.
AN ACT to provide for the removal of the insane or lunatic
convicts from the Baltimore City Jail to the Bay view
Asylum.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That whenever the board of visitors of the Baltimore

To examine
Into mental
condition
of convicts

city jail may deem it necessary, they shall have full power to
summon the State Lunacy Commission to examine and pass
upon the mental condition of the convicts, and if the convict
or convicts so examined be adjudged insane or lunatic by said
commission, or a majority thereof, and removal be deemed
advisable, said commission shall make complaint to the judge
of the Criminal Court of the city of Baltimore, who shall
have the power to order the removal of such insane or lunatic
convict or convicts to the Bay view Asylum for treatment.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 413.
AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay E. R. John-
son and others, for publishing the Constitutional Amend-