1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 28.

all and any courts of justice whatsoever, and before any
judge or justice, in all and singular actions and demands,
and to ordain, establish and enforce such by-laws ordi-
nances and regulations, as to them shall seem conducive
to the interest of said company, and necessary to the good
government and management thereof, the same not being
contrary to the existing laws of this State or of the United
States.

Issues forbid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained shall be so construed, as to authorise or empower
said corporation to issue any notes, token, certificate or
evidence of debt, to be used as a currency, and that noth-
ing herein contained shall be so construed, as to deny the
right to the General Assembly of Maryland to repeal this
act at its pleasure.

CHAPTER 27.

Passed Jan.
26, 1847.

Not evidence.

An act relating to the law of Evidence.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the distinction made by the second sec-
tion of the act passed in the year seventeen hundred and
seventeen, chapter thirteen, between persons professing
the Christian religion and those not professing the same,
be hereby removed, and that no negro or mulatto slave,
free negro or mulatto, or any Indian slave or free Indian,
natives of this or the neighboring States, be admitted and
received as good and valid evidence in law in any matter
or thing whatsoever, that may hereafter be depending be-
fore any court of record or before any magistrate within
this State, wherein any white person is concerned.

CHAPTER 28.

Passed Jan.
26, 1847.

An act entitled, an act to change the situation of the School
House, in School District dumber Three, Election
District Number Two in Charles County.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the present school house of school district
Number Three, election district Number Two in Charles
county, is inconvenient to the majority of the resi-