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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 140.

Passed
Mar. 9, 1854.

AN ACT to allow wills made in other States to be re-
corded and given in evidence in the courts of this
State.

Authority to
procure copy.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall be lawful for any person,
who may be interested in any devise or bequest of any
properly within the limits of this State, or that may be
brought into this State, after the bequest contained in
any will made in any other State, to procure a copy
of said will and probate, authenticated in the mode and
by the officer authorised by the laws of such State, and
file the same in the office of the Register of Wills of
any county in this Slate, or the city of Baltimore,
and thereupon it shall be the duty of the said register
to record the same as other wills admitted to probate in
his office, and a copy of said record, of said will and
probate under the hand of said Register and the seal of
his office, shall be evidence in all suits or actions at law
and in equity, in any court in this State, wherein the
title of any property, real or personal thereby devised,
or given shall be in question, with the same force and
effect as if the original will, had been admitted to pro-
bate in this State, according to the laws thereof.

In force.

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

CHAPTER 141.

Passed

Mar. 9, 1854.

AN ACT, to extend to Allegany county the provi-
sions of an act passed, December 'session eighteen
hundred and twenty-six, chapter two hundred and
sixty, entitled an act to declare certain trespasses
felony and for other purposes.

Person to be
adjudged
guilty.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That if any person shall cut down, or
cause, or induce any person to cut down any timber or