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be heard and determined in the same manner as if such prose-
cution had been originally instituted therein.

NOVEMBER, 1808.— CHAPTER 46.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act for mark-
ing and bounding Lands.
See notes to the original act, ante page 238.

* 1786, ch.
33.

WHEREAS the act to which this is a further additional sup-
plement does not extend its provisions to lands held for life or
lives, nor to lands held under lease for five years, and it appear-
ing just and proper that the privileges and provisions contained
in said act be extended to lands held for life or lives, and also
to lands held by lessees for years, under a certain limitation ;
therefore,

Preamble. -

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the several county
courts within this state shall have power and authority, under
such limitations and directions as are prescribed in the act, and
the supplements thereto, to which this is a further additional
supplement, to grant and issue commissions for the purpose of
marking and bounding lands, where the same may be held by
lessees for life, or for years, and where the unexpired term of
the last mentioned lease shall amount to twenty-one years or
upwards, provided the leases under which the lands are held
shall have been duly executed and recorded.

County
courts
authorized
to grant
commis-
sions to
mark and
bound lands
&c.

SEC. 3. Ared be it enacted. That the commissions thus to be
granted, when duly executed and returned by the commission-
ers, and confirmed by the county court, as is prescribed by the
original act to which this is a further additional supplement,
shall have the same effect, to all intents and purposes, as if the
provisions of the said original act had extended to the cases

Commis-
sions to
have effect,
&c.

herein mentioned ; Provided, that nothing herein contained
shall be construed to affect the right, title or interest, rf any
reversioner or remainder, in and to the land so to be marked
and bounded.

CHAPTER 54.

Proviso.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act for the better regu-
lation of Apprentices.
See notes to the original act, ante page 294.

*1793, ch.
45.

WHEREAS by an act for the better regulation of apprentices,
power is given to the justices of the several orphans courts of
this state, and in their recess to the trustees of the poor, or any
two justices of the peace, to bind out as an apprentice every
orphan child, (the increase or profits of whose estate, whether
real or personal, is or are not sufficient for the maintenance,
71

Preamble.