1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 140.

Commission to is-

sue to take depo-
sitions of marri-
age, &c.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it
shall and may be lawful for the county court of Montgomery
county, upon the application of the said Charlotte Warfield, to
issue a commission to any justice of the peace of this or any other
state or territory, to take depositions of the marriage of the said
Thomas Nicholson to Elizabeth M'Clan, or any other person, and
hat such person was living on the seventeenth day of October
eighteen hundred and twenty, and to order depositions so taken
to he recorded by the clerk of said court.

Attested copy to
be good evidence.

2. And be it enacted, That an attested copy of any depositions
so taken and recorded, shall be as pood evidence and as available
in law, in any court of this state, as if the deponents making the
same had been examined in open court.

Passed Feb. 12, 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. CXLI.

An Act for the relief of Anthony Yerkess.

WHEREAS it is stated to this general assembly, on the part of
Anthony Yerkess of the city of Baltimore, that he has an appli-
cation now depending in Baltimore county court for the benefit of
the insolvent laws of this state, in which the commissioners of
insolvent debtors have reported unfavourably, by reason of his
failure to answer within the prescribed time, to certain interroga-
tories filed against Mm, and that such his failure was occasioned
by the inattention or forgetfulness of a person whom he employed
to act for him in that behalf, and not by unwillingness or in-
ability on his part to answer the said interrogatories in a satis-
factory manner, which he is ready and desirous to do if a further
opportunity should be allowed to him; and it being reasonable
that if these facts should appear to be true, he should be relieved
from the effects of this negligence or omission on the part of his
agent, Therefore,

Authorised to pro-
secute his petition
for benefit of acts
of insolvency.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Anthony Yerkess of the city of Baltimore, be and he is hereby
authorised to prosecute his petition for the benefit of the insol-
vent laws of the state, notwithstanding the unfavourable report
made in his case by the commissioners of insolvent debtors, with-
in the last two years, and that the said report shall not disqualify
the said Anthony Yerkess from obtaining the full benefit of the

Proviso.

said laws; Provided, it shall appear to the said commissioners, on
a further application to them by the said Anthony Yerkess, which
he is hereby authorised to make, and shall by them be reported to
Baltimore county court, that his failure to answer to the said
interrogatories proceeded from the negligence, forgetfulness, in-
attention, or fault of his agent, and not from any improper design
on his part; And provided also, that on such further application
he shall answer the said interrogatories in a satisfactory manner.

Passed Feb. 12, 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. CXLII.

An Act for the relief of Hector Perkins and James M'Cann, of the City of
Baltimore.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that Hec-
tor Perkins and James M'Cann, of the city of Baltimore, are
now imprisoned in the Baltimore county gaol for debts which they