ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
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negroes and their issue, in Frederick, county court, in
the same manner as she by law would have been
compelled to do, had she have brought them into this
state within one year after her removal from Virginia
as aforesaid; And provided said negroes be of that
description, allowed by the laws of this state to be
removed and brought into this state.
CHAPTER 180.
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1812.
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An act f or the relief of Jacob Bantz, of the city
of Baltimore.
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Passed Jan. 4,
1812.
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BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the judges, or any one judge of Bal-
timore county court be, and they, or any one of them
are hereby authorised and directed to extend to Jacob
Bantz, of the city of Baltimore, the benefit of the act
of assembly passed at November session eighteen
hundred and five, entitled, " An act for the relief of
sundry insolvent debtors, " and the several supple-
ments thereto, without requiring the said Jacob Bantz
to produce the assent, in writing, of two thirds of his
creditors, as is prescribed by the provisions of the
said act and supplements.
CHAPTER 181.
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Benefits of the
insolvent laws
granted.
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An act to annul the marriage of John Henry
Hoskyns and Anne his wife.
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Passed Jan. 7,
1812.
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WHEREAS, it is represented to this General
Assembly by the petition of Anne Hoskyns of the
city of Baltimore, that her husband John Henry
Hoskyns, has been guilty of the crime of forgery, and
has fled from this state, leaving her with three infant
children (one of whom is a cripple, ) destitute of sup-
port, all his property having been seized by his credit-
ors; that she would be able by her own labor and
industry to support herself and her said children, but
is prevented from attempting that desirable object
from the certainty that her little earnings and the pro-
perty with which her friends might entrust her is lia-
ble to be seized by the creditors of her husband, and
subject to his controul and disposal: to prevent which
she has prayed her marriage with the said John Hen-
ry Hoskyns may be annulled; and the peculiar cir-
cumstances of the petitioner requiring the special in-
terference of the legislature; Therefore,
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Preamble.
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