1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 307.

over aforesaid, by attachment and sequestration of property,
or the said new trustee may in his election, institute and
prosecute an action at law for the same, against the said
trustee so removed as aforesaid, his heirs, executors or
administrators, upon his trustee's bond to the State of
Maryland, to be marked at the instance, and for the use
of the said new trustee.

CHAPTER 306.

Passed March
10, 1845.

A further supplement to the act entitled, an act to give to the
Chancellor and County Courts, as Courts of Equity,
jurisdiction in cases of Divorce, pasted at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and forty-one, chapter two hun-
dred and sixty-two.

Repealed.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all such parts of the second section of the act to
which this is a supplement, as require absence from
the State for five years on the part of the parly complain-
ed against, as a cause for divorce a vinculo matrimonii,

Proviso.

be and the same is hereby repealed; provided however,
that the chancellor and the county courts, as courts of
equity, shall in no case decree a divorce a vinculo matri-
monii, on account of abandonment on the part of the par-
ty complained against, unless they shall be satisfied by
competent testimony, that such abandonment has contin-
ued uninteruptedly for at least three years, and is delibe-
rate and final, and the separation of the parties beyond any
seasonable expectation of reconciliation.

CHAPTER 307.

Passed March
10, 1746.

An act to make valid a Deed from the Reverend Thomas
Bayne and Eliza C, his wife, of Talbot County, to
the Reverend John C. Waggaman, of Jefferson County,
Pennsylvania.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the Reverend Thomas Bayne and Eliza C,
his wife, of Talbot county, by their deed dated on the
twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-four, have conveyed to
the Reverend John C. Waggaman, of Jefferson county, in