THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

1836.

court, the remaining justice may and shall hold juris-

purpose, and that any suit now pending before the
said courts in which any two justices as aforesaid shall
be therein interested, shall be heard, and determined
by the remaining justice as aforesaid.

CHAP. 306.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That if all three of the
justices of any magistrate's court shall be interested in
such matter as aforesaid, then the said matter may be
investigated, and jurisdiction thereof entertained by
any neighbouring district court of the same county.

Case all three

CHAPTER 306.

Aw act for the relief of Francis Welch, of Anne Arun-
del County.

Passed Mar. 21,
1837.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners of Anne Arundel
county, be, and they are hereby authorised and direc-
ted to levy on the assessable property of said county
for the use of Francis Welch of said county, such sum
of money as the said Welch shall have paid to Bush-
rod W. Marriott, late sheriff of Anne Arundcl county,
in consequence of the judgment of the court of Ap-
peals for the Western shore entered at December term
eighteen hundred and thirty-three in the case of Jacob
H. Slemakcr, appellant against the said Bushrod W.

Levy for use of,
authorised

Marriott, appellee, provided the said commissioners
shall be of opinion that the slave of the said Jacob H.
Slemaker, in the proceedings in said cause mentioned,
escaped from the common Gaolof Anne Arundel coun-
ty by reason of the weakness and insecurity of said
common Gaol, and not through the negligence and de-
fault of the said Francis Welch.

Proviso

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if the decision of
the aforesaid commissioners shall be adverse to the
claim of the said Francis Welch, it shall and may be
lawful for the said Welch, to appeal from the said
commissioners to Anne Arundcl county court, who shall
determine the same at the term next after such appeal
shall be taken, and at the instance of cither party a
jury shall be empannelled under the direction of said

Appeal provided