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which are thought to possess any interest beyond the limits of the state.

Ch. 26. Idiots, Lunatics, and Persons non compotes mentis. The chancellor or the county courts, upon the petition of the guardian, trustee, or committee of any idiot, &c. and his or her appearance by a guardian appointed by the chancellor or county courts, may direct a sale of the lands of such idiot, &c. if upon a hearing, it appear that it will be for his interest that the same should be sold, and may prescribe the application and investment of the money arising from the sale. All such sales must be confirmed by them before any conveyance of the property is made; and the persons empowered to sell are required to give bonds for the due execution of the trust committed to them. On the death of the idiot, &c. the money arising from the sale is to be distributed among those who would have been entitled to the land in case it had not been sold. The compensation allowed any person having charge of an idiot, &c. is not to exceed ten per cent. upon his income and expenditure.

Ch. 201. If a lunatic or insane person be arrested on any process issued by a county court or by the Baltimore city court, or one of the judges therecf, founded on oath requiring security to keep the peace, and shall fail to give such security, he shall be subject to the same proceedings that are directed against persons arrested for crimes or misdemeanors by the act passed at December session, 1826, ch. 197.

Ch. 50. Sheriffs and other Officers. Any sheriff or other officer, who shall have arrested any person under an attachment or capias, and permitted him to go at large, may again arrest such person at any time before or on the return day of the attachment or capias, or during the term of the court to which the same is returnable, and the second arrest shall be as available in law as the original arrest.

Ch. 64. Board of Public Works. The act creating a Board of Public Works is repealed by this statute.

Ch. 78. Writs of Mandamus. If, in any case of violation of the terms or privileges of any charter granted by the state, a writ of mandamus shall issue, and a return shall be made thereunto, the party prosecuting such writ may plead to and traverse the return, and the other party may reply, take issue, or demur; and such further proceedings may be had as in an action on the case for a false return. If judgment is given for the party suing such writ, a peremptory writ of mandamus shall be granted without delay.

Ch. 85, s. 6. Licenses. In case of the death of any person, who may have taken out a license under the act passed at December session, 1827, ch. 117, it shall be lawful for the widow, executor, or administrator, to sell under the license for the rest of the year for which the same shall have been granted.

Ch. 129. Lotteries. Lotteries and other games of chance are prohibited, unless granted by the legislature and approved by the lottery commissioners; or unless proposed by the commissioners on behalf of the state. The consolidation of lotteries authorized is prohibited, unless approved by the commissioners. If any person sell, or open any office for the purpose of selling tickets in any lottery unauthorized in the manner above stated, he is subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for every ticket sold, and not exceeding five hundred dollars for every day or part of a day that such office shall be opened, or to imprisonment not exceeding one year. No person (excepting the lottery commissioners in their official capacity) shall sell tickets in any lottery authorized as above stated, or open an office for the purpose, unless he shall have first obtained a license and given bond that he will conform to the laws relative to lotteries; and the several district attorneys are required to prosecute such bond, if any of its conditions are violated. Upon convictions, the license is forfeited, and the seller is forever debarred from receiving any such license within the state. Proof of the sale of the ticket or of an agreement therefor, is conclusive evidence that it was signed and issued according to its purport; and it is not necessary to prove the existence of the lottery. Provided, 'that the provisions of this act shall not be deemed applicable to such dispositions of personal property of small value as shall be made by raffle or lot, and which shall not be intended as evasions of the lottery system.' If any person alter or forge any ticket, with intent to defraud, or sell any forged ticket, he is subject to imprisonment not exceeding seven years. This act is to be construed largely against offenders. In case any person shall propose to draw any lottery which the commissioners shall believe to be unauthorized, they may call on the attorney-general to sue out a writ of injunction to restrain such person, until the rights of the parties can be determined.

Ch. 145. Executors and Administrators. This statute exempts the wearing apparel of deceased persons from exposure to public sale by the executors and administrators, except in cases where there is no widow or child, nor any person willing to pay the debts of the deceased; provided that the property of the deceased is sufficient to pay the funeral expenses; but this exemption is not to apply to watches and jewelry. The executor or administrator is required to return an inventory of the wearing apparel, and it is to be distributed among those who are entitled to the personal property of the deceased.

Ch. 148. Auctioneers. The sum of thirty thousand dollars, in which an auctioneer, appointed under the act of December session, 1827, ch. 111, is required to recognise with sureties, is reduced to ten thousand dollars.

Ch. 165. Depositions. Commissioners are to be appointed by

the county courts for the purpose of taking depositions of witnesses in civil actions, depending in these courts; which may be used only in case of the death of the witness, or on proof of the inability of the party to procure his attendance at the trial. It is

also provided, that any person may have the deposition of a witness, in regard to any fact, in proving which he may conceive himself to be interested, taken before the commissioners appointed under this statute.

Ch. 174. Trusts. Where two or more trustees are appointed by last will, with power to the survivor to execute such trust, or to sell land or other property devised to them jointly, if any of such trustees, in writing, attested by a witness, relinquish the trust and deliver such writing to the register of wills, the right of such trustee shall therefore cease, and the remaining trustees shall be as fully empowered to act as if such trustee had died. This relinquishment is not to be construed as a release of any devise for his own use, unless it is expressly declared to be as a compensation for his services as trustee.

Ch. 199. Misnomer. No writ of action shall abate or be discontinued, nor any bail be discharged, because of the misnomer of the defendant, if it shall appear that the party arrested or summoned is the party intended to be sued. The court may also direct any writ, plea, or entry to be amended, and in their discretion allow or refuse costs to the defendant.

Private Acts. Eleven acts were passed for divorcing different persons. We also notice acts for the incorporation of two companies for the construction of canals; two railroad companies; two steamboat companies; a society for promoting the culture of the vine; four mining companies, of which one is for the purpose of working mines in Mexico; and a company of Freemasons; an act to exempt the property of the Grand Lodge of Maryland from taxation; an act for the incorporation of "The Trustees of the Particular Baptist Gunpowder Church;' and an act to prevent the operation of the Escheat Laws on land now held, or that may hereafter be acquired by the four grand-daughters of Charles Carrol of Carrolton, by descent or otherwise from their grandfather.

Manufacturing Corporations. Four manufacturing companies were incorporated.

The act incorporating the Ely's Ville Manufacturing Company, for the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods, contains a provision for the establishment of a school for the instruction of the children employed in the service of the company.

It also provides, that in case of insolvency, if "debits exceeding one half of such capital, shall at any time appear to have existed, then the stockholders shall be severally liable, in their individual capacities, to make good any deficiency in proportion to the

amount of stock held by each respectively, at the time of contracting said debits.'

The act incorporating the Baltimore Flint Glass Company provides, that no stockholder shall be liable in person or property for the debts of the company.

The acts incorporating the two other companies, one for the manufacture of shot, the other of iron, contain no provisions in regard to the personal liability of the stockholders.

INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANY.

Obituary notice of the Hon. Bushrod Washington, late one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

This distinguished judge. died at Philadelphia, on Saturday, November 26, 1829. The following notice of his life and character is taken from the Boston Daily Advertiser. It is understood to be from the pen of one of his associates on the bench.

The death of Mr. Justice Washington is an event, which cannot but cast a gloom upon all the real friends of our country. He was born on the 5th of June, 1762, and was of course now in the sixty-eighth year of his age. It is well known that he was the nephew, and we have a right to say the favorite nephew of President Washington. The latter bequeathed to him by his will his celebrated estate on the Potomac, Mount Vernon, which was the residence of this great patriot during the most brilliant periods of his life, the delightful retreat of his old age, the scene of his dying hours, and the spot, where by his own order his ashes now repose in the same tomb with his ancestors. To him also President Washington gave all his valuable public and private papers, as a proof of his entire confidence and attachment, and made him the active executor of his will. Such marks of respect from such a man,—the wonder of his own age, and the model for all future ages, would alone stamp a character of high merit, and solid distinction, upon any person. They would constitute a passport to public favor, and confer an enviable rank far beyond the records of the herald's office, or the fugitive honors of a title.

It is high praise to say, that Mr. Justice Washington well deserved such confidence and distinction. Nay more. His merits went far beyond them. He was as worthy an heir as ever claimed kindred with a worthy ancestor. He was bred to the law in his native state of Virginia, and arrived at such early eminence in his profession, that as long ago as 1798 he was selected by President Adams as a Justice of the Supreme Court upon the decease of the late Judge Wilson, of Pennsylvania. For thirty-one years he has held that important station with a constantly increasing reputation and usefulness. Few men, indeed, have possessed higher qualifications for the office, either natural or acquired. Few men have left deeper traces in their judicial career of every thing, which a conscientious judge ought to propose for his ambition or his virtue, or his glory. His mind was solid, rather than brilliant; sagacious and searching, rather than quick or

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