LAWS OF MARYLAND.                          1&3

may be enabled to give such relief to said school district and appellant as may be fitting and necessary.

CHAP. 5.

CHAPTER 4.
An act to allow further time to Francis Stephens, sheriff of Calvert County, to execute his bond for the year eigh- teen hundred and forty-four.	Passed Jan. 4, 1844.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Francis Stephens, sheriff of Calvert county, be and he is hereby allowed, until the fourth day of February next, to execute his bond to the State, as sheriff of Calvert county, for the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, and that the said bond, if executed and approved, on or before that day, shall be as valid and binding on said sheriff and his securities, as if executed within the time limited by law.	Time allowed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all official acts done and performed by said sheriff, after he shall have bonded as aforesaid, shall be as valid and effectual in law, as if he had executed his bond within the time prescribed by existing laws.	Valid.

CHAPTER 5.
An act to repeal an act passed at December session eighteen hundred and forty-two, chapter 292, entitled an act to restrain the rigor of speedy proceedings for the recovery of	Passed Jan. 1, 1844.
small debts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the act passed at December session eighteen hundred and forty-two, chapter two hundred and ninety-two, enti- tled, an act to restrain the rigor of speedy proceedings for the recovery of small debts, be and the same is hereby	Repealed.
repealed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the passage of the same.	In effect.