THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

question of right between the parties, and directing an
account to be stated, on the principle of each determi-
nation; provided, that no appeal to be taken under the
provisions of this act, shall delay the execution of the
decree or order, from which such appeal shall be taken,
unless the court passing such decree or order shall so di-
rect, nor unless the party prosecuting the appeal shall give
an appeal bond in such form and penalty, and with such
condition as the said court may direct.

CHAP. 346.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any appeal to be tak-
en under the provisions of this act, shall stand for hear-
ing at the term next after the term to which the same
shall be taken.

Appeal taken,
to stand at the
next term.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That an appeal from the
final decree or order in the cause, all previous decrees
and orders which may or shall not have been already re-
viewed, shall be open for review in the Court of Ap-
peals, in the like manner as if this act had not been
passed.

Open for re-
view in the
Court of Ap-
peals.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this
act shall operate from the day of the passage thereof,
and shall extend to decrees and orders already passed,
and to appeals already entered from such decrees and or-
ders.

CHAPTER 368.

In force from
its passage.

An act to authorise and require the Warden and Keepers
of the Penitentiary of Maryland, to receive and keep
negro William Wheeler, now under sentence of death
into the Penitentiary, in the event of the commutation
of his sentence by the Governor.

Passed Mar.
10, 1846.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the warden and keepers of the Peniten-
tiary of Maryland he, and they are hereby directed and
required to receive into the said penitentiary house, ne-
gro man William Wheeler, the slave of Benjamin Contee,
lately convicted of the crime of insurrection in Charles
county court, and now under sentence of death, in case
the Governor of the State in the exercise of the pardon-
ing power in his discretion, and with the assent of
said convict, commute the punishment of said convict
from death to confinement in the penitentiary for life, any
law to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

Warden and
keeper to re-
ceive.