THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

deals unlawfully with negroes or mulattoes, or is in the
habit of receiving stolen goods, the said court or judge
as the case may be, shall issue a summons, returnable
upon a certain day, to such person so authorised to trade
or sell, directing him or her to appear and answer the
charge in the said affidavit contained; and upon the re-
turn day of said summons, which may be served either
by the sheriff of the county, or constable of the election
district where such person so authorised to trade or sell
resides, and if such person shall be returned summoned,
or the summons shall have been left for ten days at his
or her place of abode, the said court or judge as the case

CHAP. 132.

Issue sum-
ions.

may be, shall proceed to try the case; and if satisfied
that such person or persons have dealt with negroes or
mulattoes contrary to law, or received stolen goods, or
if such court or judge shall have good reason to believe
that such person so licensed to trade or sell, deals or
receives goods in the manner aforesaid, the said court or

Try the case —
suppress li-
cense.

judge shall suppress his or her license; provided, that if
the said judge shall so suppress said license, the person
so licensed to trade or sell may it be or she feels ag-
grieved by the decision of said judge, appeal to the next
county court, which may either suppress or permit the
continuance of his or her license; but such appeal shall
not have the effect to allow such person to trade or sell
during the pendency thereof.

CHAPTER 132.

Proviso.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act regulating Writs
of Error, and granting Appeals to the Court of Appeals.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That on any appeal being entered in any
county court or Howard District court, of this State,
from any judgment of the court upon motions to set aside
sales, or on motion for application for money in the
hands of the sheriffs of any county in this State or of
Howard District, under any process in their hands from
said courts, made in virtue of executions issued out of
the county courts, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the
courts to make out and transmit to the Court of Appeals
of the Western or Eastern Shore as the case may be, to
which such appeal may be made, the record of said case
under the hand of the clerk and the seal of the court

Passed Feb.
20, 1846.

Clerk to make
out and trans-
mit record.