1806.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.

XL

Title vested,

&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the title of the real property, law.
fully and fairly acquired by the aforesaid George Sharky, whether such title be derived by gift,
grant, purchase or devise, be and the same is hereby as amply and as fully vested in the representa-
tives of the said George Sharky, as if the said George Sharky had become naturalized agreeable to
the laws of the United States before the acquiring such real property; provided always, that no.
thing in this act contained shall in any manner defeat or affect any right, title or claim, to the
said property, or any part thereof, acquired or prosecuted by any person or persons whatever before
the passage of this act.
CHAP. XLI.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.

An ACT supplementary to an act, entitled, An act to provide for
the organization and regulation of the courts of common law in
this state, and for the administration of justice therein.

No action to
continue, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That no action commenced, or to be com-
mented, shall continue longer than the end of the first court after the imparlance court, unless
with consent of parties, at the discretion of the court, or for such cause as the law heretofore al-
lowed for granting a continuance beyond the time limitted herein appearing to the satisfaction of the
court; provided, that such actions as have been transferred from the general court to the county
courts, by the act to provide for the organization and regulation of the courts of common law b
this state, and for the administration of justice therein, shall continue in the same manner, for the
same time, and under the same circumstances, as they might have continued in the general court.

Court to deter-
mine on the
real merits,
&c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That where any writ of error has been or may be brought, or excep-
tion taken, in any action transmitted from the late general court to any county court, under the
provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, the court of appeals shall determine thereon
upon the points arising out of the real merits of the case, and not upon the legal form of the record,
nor shall the judgment which may be in such cases entered, or the opinion given in the county court
be reversed for the want of legal form in such record.

Sections de-
clared void.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the fortieth and forty-sixth sections of the act to which this is
a supplement are hereby declared null and void.

Executions to
be in the same
state, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all executions which issued out of the late general court, pre-
vious to, or on the thirtieth of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
five, and which were not placed in, or which were placed in the hands of, and returned by, the pro-
per officer to whom they were respectively directed, to the court of appeals in June last, shall be in
the same state and condition, and of the same force, validity and effect, as if all such execution
had been issued under and in virtue of the twenty-eighth section of the act to which this is a supple-
ment; and all executions which have issued, or shall issue, out of the court of appeals for the wes-
tern or eastern shores respectively, on any judgment rendered in the late general court of either
shore, shall be of the same force, validity and effect, and may be proceeded in the same manner, as
if all such executions had issued on judgments rendered in the said court of appeals respectively.

Fees, how to be
charged, &c

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fees which may accrue to any attorney, clerk, sheriff, sur-
veyor or other officer, of any of the courts of this state, after the first day of June next, shall be
charged and sent out for collection in dollars and cents, and not otherwise, and all taxations of the
costs of suits shall hereafter be made in dollars and cents.

CHAP. XLII.

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1807.

An ACT to enlarge the power of the trustees of the poor of Mont-
gomery county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS Sarah Gray, of Montgomery county, by her petition to the general assembly hath
set forth, that she is about sixty-five years of age, and not able to support herself by la-
bour: And whereas it also appears, by the petition of Margaret Willson, of said county, that she is
about sixty years of age, and very poor and infirm, that for several years past she has had to support
by her own feeble exertions, a son about twenty-one or twenty-two years of age, who has become
entirely blind, and thereby totally unable to make use of any exertions for his own support, and also
a daughter, about twenty years of age, much ulcerated, who had her back broke when very young
and has not been able to walk for several years past, and praying to be supported out of the poor
house as out-pensioners; and the prayer of the said petitioners appearing reasonably therefore,