1852.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 2.

Process re-
turnable.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That process of any de-
scription, original or otherwise, may be issued by the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset county, return-
able to the said Tuesday, the twenty-seventh day of
January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.

In the event

of sickness or
other cause,
clerk shall ad-
journ court.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in the event that
the circuit judge of the said circuit shall be unable
from sickness or other cause, to attend at the county
seal of Somerset County, on the said day, the clerk of
the Circuit Court for said county, shall adjourn the court
from day to day, until such time as the said judge shall
attend at the said county seat.

Sheriff an
thorised to
summon jur-
ors.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the sheriff of So-
merset county be, and he is hereby authorised and re-
quired, to summon and return to the said special term

of the said court, a panel of forty-eight persons, quali-
fied according to existing laws, to serve as grand and
petit jurors, at the said special term, in the mode pre-
scribed by law.

In force.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall have
effect from and after the date of its passage.

Passed Feb.
18, 1852.

CHAPTER 2.

AN ACT to make valid a certain Deed therein men-
tioned from Matthew Cunningham to Richard W.
Batson.

Deed declar-
ed to be in
force.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the deed heretofore made and executed by
Matthew Cunningham to Richard W. Batson, of the
city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, bearing date the
thirty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty,
and recorded on the seventh day of November, eighteen
hundred and fifty, in Liber W. H. W., No. 10, folio
274, &c., one of the land record books of Howard dis-
trict of Anne Arundel county, be, and the same is here-
by declared to be of the same force, operation and ef-
fect, to all intents and purposes as if the said Matthew
Cunningham had been at the time of the execution of
the same, a naturalized citizen of the United States.