SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1890.

to him the said Alexander Prentice, which said house and lot, af-
ter the death of the said Levi W. Crossgrove, by reason of the
defect aforesaid, and the want of heirs, became escheat to the state
of Maryland, and the said Alexander Prentice having prayed this
general assembly to release to him the right of the state in the
said property, and his prayer appearing reasonable; therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
right, title and interest, of the State of Maryland, in and to a
certain house and lot described in a certain instrument of writing,
purporting to be the last will and testament of a certain Levi W.
Crossgrove, and recorded in the office of the register of wills of
Baltimore county, dated the. eighteenth day of April eighteen
hundred and nineteen, be and the same is hereby declared to be
released to the said Alexander Prentice, of the, city of Baltimore,
his heirs and assigns for ever; Provided always, that nothing in
this act contained shall be taken or construed to extend to destroy,
or alter or in any wise impair the rights or claims of any person
or persons in and to the said property, prosecuted or acquired be-
fore the passage of this act.

CHAP. 29.

State's right to a
house and lot re-
linquished to him.

Proviso.

CHAP. XXX.

An Act to repeal the Act, entitled, An Act to alter the time of holding the Coun-

ty Court in Charles County, passed at December Session eighteen hundred
and nineteen.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from
and after the passage of this act, the county court of Charles
county shall be held on the third Monday in March, and on the
third Monday in August, in each and every year hereafter, and
that all causes, pirns, process and proceedings, civil and crimi-
nal, now depending in the said county court, or hereafter to be
issued therefrom, shall be continued and returnable to the said
days respectively.

Passed Jan 5, 1821.

To be held on 3d
Monday in March
and August.

2. And be it enacted. That the act, entitled, An act to alter the
time of holding the county court in Charles county, passed at
December session eighteen hundred and nineteen, be and the same
is hereby repealed.

Act repealed.

CHAP. XXXI.

An Act to authorise and empower the Levy Court of Anne-Arundel County to
assess and levy a sum of Money for the purpose therein mentioned.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
levy court of Anne-Arundel county be and they are hereby di-
rected, to inquire into the claim of Henry Basford and Jacob
Basford, executors of John Basford, deceased, relative to a hogs-
head of tobacco which was shipped by their father, whilst inspec-
tor of Beard's warehouse, through mistake, and if it shall be
made to appear to their satisfaction, that the said hogshead of
tobacco was shipped through mistake, and that the one left in its
stead and place hath been sold by order of the levy court of said
county, and the money received tar the use and benefit of said
county, then and in that case they are hereby authorised and em-
powered, to assess and levy on the assessable property of said
county, such sum of money as they may, under the circumstances
of the case, deem just and equitable, and pay the same to the
said Henry and Jacob Basford, or to their order.

Passed Jan 5,1821.

Levy court direct-
ed to inquire into
claim of H. and J.
Basford, &c.