1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 32.

Passed Jan. 6, 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. XXXII.

An Act extending the time of taking the Sheriff's Bond of Cecil County.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that ow-
ing to the impossibility of getting a meeting of the orphans
court of Cecil county, William Moffit, sheriff of said county, has

been prevented from executing his bond as sheriff aforesaid,
within the time limited by law; Therefore,

Time extended
for taking bond.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it
shall and may be lawful for the said William Moffit, Sheriff of
Cecil county, to give or execute his bond as sheriff aforesaid,
any time before the twenty-fifth day of February next, and the
justices of the orphans court of said county are hereby required
and directed, to take said bond accordingly, which shall be deem-
ed and considered as valid and effectual, as if the same had been
done by the time limited by law, any law to the contrary not-
withstanding.

Passed Jan. 4, 1821.

CHAP. XXXIII.

An Act ceding to the United States the jurisdiction of the State of Maryland in,
to, and over certain lands on North Point, and Bodkin Island, at the Mouth

of the River Patapsco, and for other purposes.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by an act of congress of the United States of March
the third eighteen hundred and nineteen, and an act of May the
fifteenth eighteen hundred and twenty, authorising the building,
erecting, &c. light-houses on the Bodkin and North Point in the
state of Maryland, and elsewhere: And whereas it has been re-
presented to this legislature, by the agent of the United States
for the erection of the light houses aforesaid, that difficulties

have been opposed to the execution of the work aforesaid by the
proprietor of North Point, in refusing to dispose of the quantity
of land required at a fair and reasonable rate, but demanding an
extortionate sum for the land aforesaid: And whereas this le-
gislature duly appreciating the great advantages emanating from
the erection of light-houses, and particularly where the naviga-
tion is attended with so much difficulty and danger as at the en-
trance of the river Patapsco, and desirous to promote all in their

power to the completion of so desirous an object.

Commissioners
appointed to de-
termine value of
lands, &c.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Thomas Sweeting, James P. Soper, Charles Wirgman, Abner
Linthicum, and Stephen S. Johns, be and they are hereby ap-
pointed commissioners, with power to fill vacancies in their own
body, to fix and determine the value of certain land required by
the United States for the erection of light-houses on North Point,
as authorised by the laws of congress of the third of March
eighteen hundred and nineteen, and the fifteenth of May eighteen
hundred and twenty; and they, or a majority of them, are here-
by, upon giving at least ten days notice in one or more of the
public papers in the city of Baltimore, authorised to value and
assess the same, taking into consideration the advantages or dis-
advantages attendant upon the erecting the light-houses aforesaid,
on the land aforesaid, and including in said valuation a reason-
able allowance for the use and privilege of a road from the land
aforesaid through the lands of the said proprietor or proprietors,
as the road now exists, towards the public road leading thence