E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

priorities of the State of Maryland as a creditor of said
companies, or either of them, for either principal or
interest; nor shall the said State as a creditor, nor any
other preference creditor whosoever, be in any manner
subject to the provision of this act.

CHAPTER 133.

CHAP. 134.
the State of
Maryland.

AN ACT to provide that the answers of Defendants
in proceedings in Equity, shall not be evidence
against Complainants, unless such answers be re-
quired by the Complainants to be under oath.

Passed April
29, 1852.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That no answer of any defendant to any
bill or petition to be hereafter filed in the Courts

of Equity in this State, shall be evidence against the
complainant or complainants, unless by the bill or peti-
tion such answer shall be required to be made under the
oath of the respondent or respondents; or unless at toe
hearing of the cause the complainant or complainants
shall read the answer as evidence, in which case it shall
have the same effect as to the party reading the same,
as if it had been required to be made under oath.

CHAPTER 134.

Answer to be
made under
oath.

AN ACT to require Advertisements proceeding from
the Courts and officers of Baltimore county, to be
published in one paper printed in the said county.

Passed May
5, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the advertisements, orders and
notices, required to be published in a newspaper or
newspapers, by the Circuit Court of Baltimore county,
the Orphans' Court for said county, the register of wills,
the clerk of Circuit Court, the county commission-
ers, the treasurer and the sheriff, of said county, shall
be published in at least one newspaper in Baltimore

To be pub-
lished in
newspaper in
Baltimore co.