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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

provisions of this act or the Constitution of the
United States or this State.

Rights re-
served.

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That the Legislature
reserves to itself the right to amend or repeal this
act at pleasure.

In force.

Sec. 14. And be it enacted. That this act shall
take effect from the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 89.

Passed Feb
17, 1864.

. AN ACT to repeal section eighty-nine of Article
sixteen, entitled, " Chancery," of the Code of
Public General Laws, relating to non-resident
infant defendants in chancery, and to enact a
substitute therefor.

Repealed.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That section eighty-nine of Article
sixteen, entitled " Chancery," of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws, relating to non-resident infant
defendants in Chancery, be and the same is hereby
repealed and the following section enacted as a
substitute therefor :

Section
enacted.

89. In every suit in Chancery by bill or petition
where the defendants, or any of them, shall be in-
fants residing out of this State, in any other of the
United States, or where application is made by the
guardian or prochein amy of any non-resident in-
fant, to sell, lease, mortgage or exchange the real
or personal property of such infant, on the prayer
or petition of the complainant or petitioner a com-
mission may be issued, without any previous pro-
cess or notice, to any two persons in the discretion
of the Judge of the court in which such suit is
brought, who reside near such infant, authorizing
them, or either of them, to appoint a guardian to
answer for such infant or infants, and take answer
of such infants by their said guardian, and the
said Judge may prescribe the mode of authenti-