THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1836.

holding in fee or less estate, real property in the United
Stales, the yearly value of which exceeds the sum of
thirty thousand dollars, or the yearly value of so much
thereof as may be in this State exceeds the sum of five
thousand dollars.

CHAP. 275.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the act herein before
mentioned or the General Assembly of Maryland, chap-
ter one hundred and eighty nine, of December session,

Acts repealed.

eighteen hundred and thirty, be and the same is hereby
repealed; saving and reserving however to the persons
incorporated by said act, and to the American Coloni-
zation Society, all the rights and powers conferred by
said act, so far as the same may be necessary for the
recovery, possession, holding or enjoyment of any pro-
perty, real, personal or mixed, chose in action or fran-
chise of any description whatsoever, which may have
been heretofore given, granted, devised or bequeathed
to or otherwise acquired by the said persons or any of
them, or to or by the American Colonization Society.

Reservation

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act and the pow-
ers and privileges granted thereby, may be at any time
repealed, modified, amended or changed, at the discre-
tion of the General Assembly.

CHAPTER 275.

An act, supplemental to the act, entitled, an act, to es-
tablish Magistrate's Courts in the several Counties in
this State, and to prescribe their jurisdiction, passed
at December Session, eighteen hundred and thirty-
five, chapter two hundred and one.

Passed Mar. 20,
1837.

WHEREAS, doubts are entertained as to the true
construction of the duties of the chief justices of the sev-
eral district courts, in the delivery of papers and pro-
ceedings, in cases to be sent from one district court to
another, as provided in the twenty-first section of the
original act, — Therefore;

Preamble

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all cases of suits, complaints or
prosecutions, being removed for trial from one district
court to another of the same county, as provided for in
the twenty-first section of the act to which this is a

Court deliver
papers to con-
stable