THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1836.

effect as if recorded within the time specified in said
act, any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 267.

CHAP. 268.

An act to confirm an act, entitled, an act to repeal all
such parts of the Constitution and Form of Govern-
ment, as relates to the division of Cecil County into
four separate Election Districts.

Passed Mar. 20,
1887.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That an act of Assembly, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter two hundred
and fifty-nine, entitled, an act, to repeal all such parts
of the Constitution and Form of Government, as relates
to the division of Cecil county, into four separate elec-
tion districts, be, and the same is hereby ratified and
confirmed.

Confirmation

CHAPTER 268.

A supplement to an act, passed at December Session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter three hun-
dred and thirty-nine, entitled, an act for the relief of
John Reynolds, and others of Washington County.

Passed Mar. 20,
1837.

WHEREAS, in consequence of a decision by the Court
of Appeals, made at its present session, the said court
have declined to take jurisdiction in the cases mention-
ed in the original act, to which this is a supplement,
by reason of which the benefits intended to be confer-
red by said act, have been wholly lost to the parties
in the cases mentioned; and whereas, for the reasons
set forth in the preamble to said original act, it is im-
portant to have a prompt and speedy determination of
the controversy therein referred to, — Therefore;

Preamble

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That whenever after a final decision made
by the Chancellor in said cases, the appellant shall
have transcript of the record, transmitted to the Court
of Apepals, it shall then be the duty of said court to hear

Trial at first
term by con-
sent authorised