PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect and be in force from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 37.

CHAP. 38.

In force.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act to authorise
executors and administrators to convey real estate in
certain cases.

Passed Jan. 29,
1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the provisions of the act of De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and forty-six, chap-
ter two hundred and seventy-nine, be and the same
are hereby extended to all cases where letters testa-
mentary, or of administration, may have been, or may
hereafter be granted by the proper authority, in the
District of Columbia, to the executor or executors,
administrator or administrators, from whom the deed
may be required in virtue of this supplement; and

Act extended.

provided, the application contemplated by the said
original act, to procure a deed or conveyance, be made
to the Orphans court of the city or county where the
land so sought to be conveyed is situate.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 38.

In force.

An act to provide for the admission of printed statutes
of the Congress of the United States, as evidence
in the courts of this State.

Passed Jan. 29,
1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That in all trials, at law or in equity, and
in all controversies depending in any of the Orphans
courts of this State, or before a justice of the peace
of this State, it shall and may be competent for either
party to read in evidence the public or private statutes
of the Congress of the United States, from any printed!
volume purporting to contain the statutes of said

May read in
evidence.