ale hereby, repealed.

"2. That hereafter all persons named and em braced in the preceding section may and shall be allowed to testify in all Milts and controversies in law and equity in which person*, of the same sta tus are directly or indirectly interested, and in all criminal rases.

" 3. This act shall be in force from its passage."

Mr. Lee then offered a resolution to recom mit tho bill to the committee, to consider each