This law has often been dispensed with, both in respect to
the time of claiming an appeal and entering recognizance to
prosecute the same, and also for the purpose of re-opening the
whole case by review or new trial. The following are speci-
mens of dispensing acts of this class.
On the petition of James RoweU.
June 26, 1790.
On the petition of James Rowell, praying relief from a verdict and judg-
ment against him, rendered in the Court of Genera] Sessions of the Peace,
held at Ipswich on the second Tuesday of ^pril :

Resolved, That said James Rowell may at the next Court of General
Sessions of the Peace, to be holden for that County, claim an appeal from
the said judgment against him ; and the Justices of the said Court of Gen-
eral Sessions next to be holden as aforesaid, shall and may hear and enter
the said claim, and are hereby authorized and directed to allow said appeal
in the same manner, as if the same had been entered and allowed at the
Session of said Court in which said judgment was rendered ; and all pro-
ceedings upon the said judgment shall be stayed, and the same considered
as in other cases of an appeal ; and the Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court are hereby authorized and directed to allow the entry of such appeal,
at the next term of said Court in that County. And thereupon to proceed
in the same form as if the said appeal had been regularly brought before
them — any Utto or usage to the contrary noiwilhstanding.
