1544.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 45.

CHAPTER 44.

Passed Feb
6, 1845.

A further supplement to the act Enlarging the Powers of
the High Court of Chancery.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, doubts are entertained whether the act en-
titled, an act for the belter regulation of chancery pro-
ceedings in certain cases, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and twenty, chapter one hundred and
sixty-one, and the act entitled, a further supplement to the
act enlarging the powers of the High Court of Chancery,
passed December session, eighteen hundred and forty-
two, chapter two hundred and twenty-nine, apply to cases
which have abated or may abate by the death of the repre-
sentative of a deceased complainant or defendant—There-

Party may be
named.

fore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in any case now pending, or to be here-
after commenced in the Court of Chancery, or in any
county court sitting as a court of equity, in which
an executor or administrator shall be a parly and die, or
have died before the passage of this act, the administrator
de bonis non or other proper representative of the estate,
may be a party in the manner provided for by the said

Court may
direct

acts.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no such suit shall
necessarily abate by the suggestion of the death of any
complainant but his proper representative, or in case he
was a representative of any estate, the proper represent-
ative of the said estate may be made a party if it shall be
deemed necessary, on such terms and in such a manner
as the said court shall deem proper and advisable for the
purposes of justice and to avoid unnecessary delay.

CHAPTER 45.

Passed Feb.
4, 1845.

An act to alter and change the name of Laura Ogle Old-
ham, of Cecil County, to Laura Ogle.

Name chang-
ed.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the name of Laura Ogle Oldham, of
Cecil county, be and is hereby changed and altered to
that of Laura Ogle, and it shall and may be lawful for the
said Laura Ogle Oldham at all times hereafter to be called
and known by and use the name of Laura Ogle, and by