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shall cease and may be shut up, or when, for the continuance
of said road, it shall be necessary to have the same, at the
discretion of the court, renewed.

CHAPTER 295.
A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, passed at December session, of the year
eighteen hundred and ten, chapter thirty-four, relating to Devises and
Legacies.

WHEREAS, doubts are entertained as to the proper construc-
tion of the fourth section of the act to which this is a supple-
ment, and whether the devisees or legatees, whose death is
provided for by the said section, must be devisees or legatees
actually and specially named in the last will and testament or
codicil ; therefore,

Preamble*

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all devisees or legatees shall be deemed and taken to be within
the provisions and true intent and meaning of said fourth sec-
tion of said act, who are or shall be either actually and specially
named as devisees or legatees, or who are or shall be mentioned,
described, or in any manner referred to, or designated, or iden-
tified, as devisees or legatees, in and by any last will and testa-
ment or codicil.

Devisees
and legatees
have
construed.

CHAPTER 296.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act relating to People of Colour
in this State.

*1831, ch.
281.

WHEREAS, several coloured persons, prior to the passage of
the law passed at the last session, viz : an act, entitled, can act
relating to people of colour in this state,' obtained deeds of
manumission, which have not been recorded prior to said act,
whereby they will be compelled to leave the state, or relinquish
their freedom ; therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1 . Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any deed of manumission, so executed, and duly attested
and acknowledged, and failing to be recorded, shall, if it be

Certain
manumis-
sions made
valid.

recorded before the first day of October next, be as valid, as if
recorded prior to the passage of said act; and it shall be the
duty of each and every clerk to record such deed, when pre-
sented to him before the first day of October next.

If recorded
by October
next.

SEC. 2. AND WHEREAS, several deeds of bargain and sale
have been executed, prior to the passage of the act to which
this is a supplement, conveying certain slaves, for a limited
period, to the purchasers therein mentioned, and after the expi-
ration of said period declaring said slaves free, which deeds
have been either not attested by two witnesses, or not recorded,
prior to the passage of said act, whereby such slaves are de-
prived of the benefits intended by said deeds ; therefore. Be it

Certain
deeds of
bargain
prior to act
of 1831, &c.