LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1820.

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which this is an additional supplement, shall not be construed
to extend to Varinas Tobacco, the growth of this state,
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall continue in
force until the first day of December in the year eighteen hun-
dred and twenty- three, and to the end of the next session of the
general assembly thereafter.
Continued by the annual continuance act.

CHAPTER 191.

AN ACT to amend and reduce into one system the Laws to Direct
Descents.
Other laws are, 1825, ch. 46; 1827, ch. 203; 1829, eh. 32; 1832, ch,
53 ; 1833, ch. 93.

extend to
Varinas
tobacco.
Duration.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if after the commencement of this act, any person seized
of an estate in any lands, tenements of hereditaments, lying or
being in this state, in fee simple or fee simple conditional, here-
tofore or hereafter acquired, or of an estate in fee tail genefal,
created and acquired after the commencement of this act, shall
die intestate thereof, such lands, tenements of hereditaments,
shall descend in fee simple to the kindred, male and female, of

How lands,
&c. of a
person
dying intes-
tate shall
descend.

such person, in the following order, to wit: First to the child
or children and their descendants, if any, equally, and if no
child or descendant, and the estate descended to the intestate,
on the part of the father, then to the father; and if no father
living, then to the brothers and sisters of the intestate of the
blood of the father, and their descendants, equally ; and if no
brother or sister as aforesaid, or descendant from such brother
or sister, then to the grandfather on the part of the father ; and
if no such grandfather living, then to the descendants of such
grandfather, and their descendants in equal degree equally; and
if no descendant of such grandfather, then to the father of such
grandfather; and if none such living, then to the descendants
of the father of such grandfather in equal degree, and so on,
passing to the next lineal male paternal ancestor, and if none
such, to his descendants in equal degree, without end ; and if
no paternal ancestor, or descendant from such ancestor, then to
the mother of the intestate ; and if no mother living, to her de-
scendants in equal degree equally ; and if no mother living, or
descendants from such mother, then to the maternal ancestors,
and their descendants, in the same manner as is above directed

How the
estate shall
descend, if
it descended
to the intes-
tate on the
part of the
father, and
there be no
child or de-
scendant of
the intes-
tate.

as to the paternal ancestors and their descendants ; and if the
estate descended to the intestate on the part of the mother, and
the intestate shall die without any child or descendant as afore-
said, then the estate shall go to the mother; and if no mother
living, then to the brothers and sisters of the intestate, of the
blood of the mother, and their descendants, in equal degree
94

How to de-
scend if it
descended
to the intes-
tate on the
part of the
mother, and
there be no