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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

been bona fide residents of Maryland, for the
space of five years next preceding their applica-
tion to become emigrants.

Reservation.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the Legisla-
ture reserves the right to repeal at any time the
appropriations now made, or any part thereof.

CHAPTER 426.

Passed March
9, 1858.

AN ACT further to provide for carrying into ef-
fect the twenty-second section of the fourth ar-
ticle of the Constitution, so far as relates to the
Courts of Equity in the city of Baltimore.

In case Judge
of the Circuit
Court be dis-
qualified from
acting in any
cause the pro-
ceedings to be
transmitted to
the Superior
Court.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That whenever the Judge of
the Circuit Court for the city of Baltimore shall
be disqualified to sit in any cause depending in
said Court by reason of the happening of any of
the contingencies mentioned in the twenty-second
section of the fourth article of the Constitution, or
in the first section of the act to provide for carry-
ing into effect the twenty-second section of the
fourth article of the Constitution, passed at Janu-
ary session, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chap-
ter sixty-eight, the said Judge shall immediately,
with the consent of the parties, after the announc-
ment of such contingency, order and direct the
bill, exhibits, answers and all other proceedings
in such cause to be transmitted to the Superior
Court of Baltimore city as a Court of Equity,
which said Court shall proceed in, hear and de-
termine the same, in like manner as if the said
cause had been originally instituted therein.

In case Judge
of the Superior
Court be dis-
qualified pro-
ceedings to be
transmitted to
the Circuit
Court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever the
Judge of the Superior Court of Baltimore city,
shall be disqualified to sit in any cause depending
in said Court on the Equity side thereof, by rea-
son of any of the contingencies mentioned in the
twenty-second section of the fourth article of the
Constitution, or in the first section of the act to