LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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had and obtained of the mortgagee, his executors, ad-
ministrators or assigns, or of the landlord, his executors
or administrators (as the case may be,) unless the securi-
ties under any former bond entered into, are indemnified
with security to be approved of by the chancellor, judge
or justices (as the case may be.)

DEC. SESS.

1814.

12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if after the thir-
ty first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixteen,
the tenant or tenants, or any person claiming by, through
or under him, her or them, shall hold and occupy the
lands or tenements, for the rent due for the occupation
whereof bond hath been given us aforesaid, that then
and in that case the landlord or landlords, his, her or
their executors or administrators, may proceed to dis-
tress for the same, in the manner that he, she or they
might or could have done before the passage of this act.

Tenants hold-
ing lands for
rent. for
which bond
hath been gi-
ven.

13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the following
fees shall be allow to each of the said justices for services
performed under this act: For taking bond, twelve and an
half cents; for issuing summon, six and one fourth cents ;
for supersedeas, twelve and an half cents; for every cer-

tificate, six and one fourth cents.

Fees.

14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no attorney shall
be entitled to collect by execution any foe or fees, now
due, or that may hereafter become due, during the con-
tinuance of this act; Provided the same shall be super-
seded in the same manner that judgments and decrees are
to be superseded by this act.

Attorneys
shall not col-
lect fees.

Proviso.

15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this
act contained shall be taken or understood to prevent per-
sons from superseding of judgments in conformity to
pre-existing laws of the state they shall prefer so to
do.

May super-
sede under
former law.

16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act entitled,
a further additional supplement to the act entitled, an
act for regulating the mode of staying executions and
repealing the acts of assembly therein mentioned, and
for other purposes, passed December session eighteen hun-
dred and thirteen, be and the same is hereby repealed.

An act repeal-
ed.

CHAPTER 85.

An act annulling the. marriage of John Meeds, and Eli-
zabeth Meeds of Queen Ann's county.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the marriage of the said John
Meeds and Elizabeth Meeds of Queen Ann's county,
heretofore solemnized, be and the same is hereby declar-
ed to be absolutely, to all intents and purposes null and
void; and the said John Meeds and Elizabeth Meeds,

Passed Jan. 20,

1815.

Divorced.

are declared to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii; Provid-
ed nevertheless, That nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to illegitimate any child born of the

Proviso.