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eighty,* entitled, an act to seize, confiscate and appropriate, all
British property within this state, and the said purchasers, in
some instances, having paid the whole, and in others, a great
part of the purchase money, and are desirous to complete their
contract, and to obtain a legal title to their land, and doubts
having been entertained whether there exists any competent
authority to execute conveyances to the said purchasers ; for
remedy whereof,
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*Chap. 45.
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SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases in which any citizen of this or of any of the
United States shall have purchased any land lying within this
state, the legal title to which is now outstanding in a British
subject, or vested by law in this state, or who now has a fair
and equitable claim to any such land which had been so pur-
chased, it shall and may be lawful, upon a bill being filed in
the court of chancery, either by the claimant of such land, or
the party who claims to be paid the purchase money for the
land so sold, and upon making the attorney-general a party, for
the chancellor to proceed according to the established principles
of equity and the rules of the court of chancery, to hear and
determine the equity between the parties, and the chancellor
shall thereupon proceed to decree to the parties legally entitled
thereto, the money still remaining due for the purchase of the
said land, in case any shall be due, and to decree a conveyance
of the said land, and in case none of the said money shall be
due, or in case the party shall comply with the decree of the
court, by paying the money decreed, that then and in such case
the chancellor shall, in the name of the state of Maryland,
convey to the said party or parties having a legal claim to the
said land, all the right and estate which is vested in any British
subject, or in the state of Maryland by virtue of the several
acts of assembly of this state.
See 1802, ch. 100, sec. 11, ante page 470.
CHAPTER 97.
AN ACT to reduce into one the several acts of assembly respecting Elec-
tions, and to regulate said Elections.
Other laws are 1811, ch. 204; 1819, ch. 174; 1823, ch. 213; 1828,
ch. 160.
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Chancellor
may agree
respecting
lands, the
legal title to
which is in
a British
subject, or
in the state,
&c. and
convey to
the party
having a
legal claim.
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WHEREAS by the constitution of this state it is provided, that
every free white male citizen of this state, and no other, having
resided twelve months in the county next preceding the elec-
tion at which he offers to vote, and every free white male
citizen of this state above twenty-one years of age, and having
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Preamble.
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