E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the county com-
missioners of Montgomery county are hereby directed
to apply the said sum of money to the payment of the
expenses, so as aforesaid incurred, in the safe keeping
and delivery of said William L. Chaplin to the sheriff
of Howard county.

CHAP. 313.

Sum to be ap-
plied to pay-
ment of ex-

penses.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the time of its passage.

CHAPTER 312.

In force.

AN ACT to facilitate the Despatch of Business on
the Equity side of the Superior Court of Balti-
more City.

Passed May
29, 1852.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Judge of the Superior Court of the
City of Baltimore may, with the assent of the par-
ties to any suit or action, depending on the Equity
side of said court, in writing, signed by their parties or
their counsel, appoint a referee, before whom the said
case may be argued, and the said court may pass such
decree, in any such cause, as the referee may report

Authority to
appoint re-

feree.

to said court as proper; and an appeal may be taken
from any decree passed in pursuance of the provisions

of this act, in the same manner, and to have the same

effect, as if the same had been passed without the in-

Right of ap-
peal.

tervention of a referee as aforesaid; Provided, that this
act shall be in force until the first day of January,
1854, and no longer.

CHAPTER 313.

Proviso.

AN ACT to authorise the Trustees of the German
Reformed Congregation of Zion's Church, in Man-
chester, Carroll county, to sell their interest in said
Church, or so much thereof as they may deem advis-
able, and to purchase a lot of ground and erect a

Church thereon.

Passed May
28, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That it shall, and may be lawful for the

Authority to

sell.