T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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sum of interest for which he is threatened with
suit; and inasmuch as it seems to be a great hard-
ship, and a case calling for the clemency of the
State; Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Comptroller be and he is
hereby directed to stay all legal proceedings on the
bond of the said John Richardson for the collection
of the colonization tax for the year eighteen hundred
and forty-nine, and remit and credit in full all sums
that may be due, for or on account of interest on
said bond, so far as said Harrington is concerned.

Comptroller
directed to stay
all legal pro-
ceedings.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 139.

In force.

A SUPPLEMENT to the act entitled, an act to
provide for carrying into effect the twenty-second
section of the fourth article of the Constitution,
passed January session eighteen hundred and fifty-
two, chapter sixty-eight, explaining and enlarging
the operation of said original act in aid of the
purpose declared in the title thereof.

Passed Mar.
8, 1856.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That where persons have been appoint-
ed, or shall hereafter be appointed under the act to i
which this is a supplement for the hearing, trying and
deciding causes, in which the Judges holding com-
missions under the Constitution are disqualified to
sit, it shall not be understood that the power of ap-
pointing special Judges in such cases has been ex-
hausted; but if either of the persons so appointed
to act as special Judge, has died, resigned or refused
to act, or shall hereafter die, resign, or refuse to act
before the cause has been determined, it shall and
may be lawful for the parties to the suit; or if they
cannot agree, and the cause is pending in the Cir-
cuit Court for any county, it shall and may be law-

Power to ap-
point special
Judges not ex-
hausted.