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NUMBER 28.


SECTION 1. Be it ordained, That whenever by reason of any ordinance passed by this Convention, any right of action is revived which, under the operations of the laws heretofore enacted, may have been barred by limitations, the same shall be maintainable, only on condition that no interest on the claim shall be allowed, from and after the same was so barred. There shall be a stay of execution on all judgments, heretofore rendered, or that may hereafter be rendered, until the adjournment of the first Legislature, convened after the adjournment of this Convention, leaving the matter with the Legislature to grant relief; provided that Hunt county shall be excepted from the operation of this ordinance.

Passed March 29, 1866.


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