1829.
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. 159.
Passed Feb. 26, 1830.
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CHAPTER 159.
An act relating to the issuing of commissions to take testimony
in certain
cases.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, by the act entitled, a further
supplement to the
act entitled, an act for enlarging the powers of the high Court
of Chancery, passed in eighteen hundred and twenty-six,
chapter two hundred and twenty two, it is enacted that all
commissions which shall hereafter be issued to take testimony
in causes depending in [ ] high Court of Chancery and County
Courts, sitting as Courts of Equity, shall be issued and directed
to two persons to be named and appointed by the said
court or courts, or any judge thereof, instead of being issued
to four commissioners in the manner previously provided by
law; and whereas, said act has been construed by some of the
county courts of this state, to restrain them from issuing a
commission to one person only in any cause, although the parties
thereto consent:
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Explanatory.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
hereafter said act shall not be construed to restrain the issuing
of a commission to one person only in any cause, if the parties
in the cause consent thereto.
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Passed Feb. 26, 1830.
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CHAPTER 160.
An act to revive an act entitled, an act to incorporate a company
to make a Turnpike Road from the town of Westminster,
in Frederick county, through Harman's Gap, to Hagerstown,
in Washington county.
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Acts revived.
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Section 1. Be it enacted by
the General Assembly of Maryland,
That an act passed at November session, eighteen hundred
and nine, entitled, an act to incorporate a company to
make a Turnpike Road from the Town of Westminster, in
Frederick county through Harman's Gap to Hagerstown in
Washington county, together with the several supplements
thereto, be and they are hereby revived and continued in full
force, and all the rights, powers and privileges, given, granted
or conferred by the same, be and they are hereby renewed
and revived in their full force and original extent, excepting
only such as may be otherwise provided for by this act.
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Ten years allowed.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted,
That the further [terms] of ten
years from and after the expiration of the term now allowed
by law, be and the same is hereby granted to the President,
Managers and Company of the Hagerstown Turnpike Road
Company, to complete the Turnpike Road from Westminster
in Frederick county to Hagerstown in Washington county.
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