1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 282.

said summons, if the party shall be returned summoned
or the summons shall have been left for ten days at his
or her place of abode, it shall be the duty of the said
judge or court to examine the case, and if he or it shall
be Satisfied that such person licensed to trade or sell, is
generally reputed to deal with negroes contrary to law,

or to receive stolen goods, or if said court or judge shall
have good reason to believe, that such person deals or re-
ceives goods in the manner aforesaid, it shall be the duty
of said court, or judge to take away and annul said li-

Proviso.

cense; provided, that if the said judge shall so take
away and annul said license, the said persons so licensed
to trade, may appeal to the next county court inlaid
county, which shall pass upon the matter in the manner
aforesaid, but such appeal shall not operate to allow the
said person to trade or sell during the pendency of such
appeal.

Not competent
to trade.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any trader who may
be convicted, and his license suspended under this act
after such appeal, shall not be competent to trade or sell
in Calvert county, under the license of any other person,
obtained for his use, nor shall he have a license granted
to him in his name at any time thereafter.

CHAPTER 282.

Passed Mar.
9, 1846.

An act to authorise and require the Court of Appeals for
the Western Shore of Maryland, at the June Term,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, of the said Court, to
take up, hear, try and determine a case in said Court

now depending between Edward R. Wheeler, Robert S.
Reeder and others, appellants, and Joseph Stone and
William B. Stone, appellees.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to the General Assembly,
thai the interest of the parties to the case, in the title to
this act mentioned, would be greatly promoted by the
trial of the same at the June term, eighteen hundred and
forty-six, of the Court of Appeals for the Western Shore
of Maryland — therefore,

Clerk to enter
case.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the clerk of the Court of Appeals for the Western
Shore of Maryland be, and he is hereby authorised and
require to place and enter the case, in the title to this
act mentioned, on the trial docket of the June term,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, of the said court, and that
the said court be and they are hereby authorised and re-
quired to proceed in the said case, at the said June term,