Chapter LXXXI. *for the relief of Walter S
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Chap. LXXXI.— An Act *for the relief of Walter S. Alexander and others.* June 15, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That upon good and sufficient cause being shown by either party, that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in theAllowed, upon cause shown, to remove a certain trial, &.c. county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, in the trial of a certain issue of “ devisavit vel non,” sent to be tried at the bar of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, by a jury, as in such cases provided, by order of the orphans’ court of said county, in which Walter S.-Alexander and others are caveators, and plaintiffs, and George Wise is the expounder of the last will and testament of George Dent Alexander, deceased, and defendant with others in said issue, the said circuit court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, shall at its discretion order the said issue to be tried before the circuit court for the county of Washington, in the said District of Columbia, at the next session of the last mentioned court, in the same manner and to the same effect, that the said issue is required, by any law heretofore in force, to be tried in said county of Alexandria; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court for the county of Alexandria aforesaid, to transmit to the clerk of the said court, for the county of Washington, the record and all the proceedings in said case, now in said court for the county of Alexandria, and all original and other papers filed in the suit aforesaid.
Approved, June 15, 1844.