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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1833.

county, and other public places in the county in which the
negro slaves, lands or tenements may be, and also published
for the same period of time previous to the day of sale in

Proviso.

some newspapers; Provided, there be any printed in the
county where such sale may be made; And whereas, doubts
may arise whether such notice is not required by the said
supplement to be published in all the newspapers, that may
be printed in such county, however numerous, and whether
such notice if published in one newspaper only in a county
wherein more newspapers than one are printed, is or would be
a due and legal notice under the said supplement — therefore,

Legal no-
tice pre-
scribed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it is not, nor shall it be necessary for such notice as afore-
said in any case whatsoever, to be published in more newspa-
pers, than one printed in the county where such sale may be
made ; and that such notice when given by advertisement set
up for the time at the places, and in the manner prescribed by
said supplement, and published in one newspaper, if any be
printed in such county, shall be to all intents and purposes,
regular and legal ; Provided, that the sheriff, coroner or elisor,
constable or other officers, shall in all other respects conform to
the provisions of said supplement.

Sales con-
firmed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That all sales of negro slaves,
lands, or tenements heretofore made by any sheriff, coroner or
elisor, constable or other officers, under or by virtue of any writ
of fieri facias or venditioni exponas, or of the act to which this
is a further supplement and its several supplements, in which
notice thereof has been published in one newspaper only, in the
county where such sale has been made although more news-
papers than one may have been printed there at the time, shall
be, and the same are hereby declared to be good and valid sales
to all intents and purposes ; Provided, the said sales are in all
other respepts legal and regular, and made in conformity with
the laws of the state relating to the same.

CHAPTER 93.

*1820, ch.
191.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act to amend and reduce into
one system the Laws to direct Descents.

Case of
sale.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
hereafter in all cases where land has been sold by commission-
era appointed under the act to which this is a supplement, or

Or election
to take.

when any person has elected to take land under said act, the
county court of the county where the land lies, upon being
satisfied that the purchase money for said land has been paid or

And money
paid.

brought into court to be paid to the person or persons entitled to
the same, may, upon the application of the purchaser or person
electing to take, or any other person who may have become