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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

follows: one-third thereof on or before the first day of
February next, and the balance on or before the first
day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five ;
Provided, that the said sureties shall not be released
from the payment of such interest as shall have been
received by said collector, or such interest as may be
due from the tax payers or taxes now due by them, nor
from the interest accruing on the principal from the
passage of this act.

CHAPTER 230.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1854.

AN ACT to provide for the amendment of proceedings
in chancery.

Right to
amend bill.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and
may be lawful upon application of either complainant
or defendant to any court in this State sitting as a court
of equity, and upon payment of such costs as the court
may direct, to amend at any time before final decree,
the bill of complaint, answer, pleas, demurrers, or any
of the proceedings in any cause before the court, so as
to bring the merits of the case in controversy fairly to
trial.