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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

cases when one or more persons is or are entitled
to an estate for life or years or to an estate tail, fee
simple, conditional base or qualified fee, or any
other particular, limited, or conditional estate in
lands, and any person or persons is or are entitled
to a remainder or remainders vested or contingent
on an executor's devise or devises, or any other
interest vested or contingent in the same land on
application of any of the parties in interest, a
Court of Equity may, if all the parties in being

Decree.

are parties to the proceeding, decree a sale or lease
thereof, if it shall appear to be advantageous to
the parties concerned, and shall 'direct the invest-
ment of the proceeds of sale or the limitations of
the leasehold interest, as the case may be, so as to
enure in like manner as by the original grant to
the use of the same parties who would be entitled
to the land sold or leased, and all such decrees if
all the persons or parties who would be entitled if
the contingency had happened at the date of the
decree, shall bind all persons whether in being or
not, who claim or may claim any interest in said
land under any of the parties to said decree, or
under any person from whom any of the parties to
such decree claim, or from or under or by the ori-
ginal deed or will by which such particular, limi-
ted or conditional estates, with remainders or
executory devises were created.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the day of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1868.

CHAPTER 274.

AN ACT to include Blackiston Island in the third
Election District of St. Mary's County.

Included.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Blackiston Island, in St. Mary's
County, be included in the third Election District
of said County.

Approved March 30, 1868.