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Repeal.
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Public General Laws, title "Courts," be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows :
4. The power of the several courts of the State to issue
attachments and inflict summary punishments for contempt of
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of power
of courts.
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courts, shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the
following : (1.) The misbehavior of any person or persons in
the presence of the said courts, or so near thereto as to obstruct
the administration of justice; (2.) The misbehavior of any
officers of the said courts in their official -transactions ; (3.) The
disobedience or resistance by any officer of the said courts,
party, juror, witness or any other person or persons to any law-
ful writ, process, order, rule, decree or command of the said
courts ; (4.) For unlawfully detaining or fraudulently and wil-
fully preventing, or disabling from attending or testifying a
witness or party to an action, while going to, remaining at, or
returning from the court, or sitting of an examiner in equity,
or commissioner, where such cause may be set for trial, near-
ing, or the taking of testimony ; (5.) For fraudulently and
wilfully removing, concealing or destroying any book, paper or
document for the production of which for purposes of evidence,
either at the trial of a cause, or before an examiner in equity,
or commissioner, notice shall have been given ; (6.) For rescu-
ing any person from the custody or removing any property
from the possession of any officer holding said person or prop-
erty by virtue of any writ of a court of competent jurisdic-
tion ; (7.) Any person for assuming to be any attorney, solici-
tor, or other officer of the court, and acting as such without
authority.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every offense which
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has been, or shall have been, wholly or partly committed
against the law hereby repealed, before this Act goes into
operation, shall be dealt with, inquired into, tried, determined
and punished, and every penalty in respect to any such offense
shall be imposed or inflicted and any tine shall be imposed,
enforced or recovered as if said law had not been repealed ;
and no case or proceeding pending shall abate, by reason of
such repeal ; and provided, also, that any liabilty in respect to
any matter or thing committed or done before this Act comes
:nto operation shall continue and be of the same force and
effect as if said law had not been repealed.
Approved March 14, 1898.
CHAPTER 32.
AN ACT to repeal Sections 11 and 14 of Article 24 of the
Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "Worcester County,"
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