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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXIV.
An Act to repeal an Act, entitled, An Act to clear and make public
a
Road in Washington County.
Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 589. |
1810.
CHAP. 114.
Passed Dec. 24. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of William Osborn Sprigg, of Washington county, that a
law passed at November session, eighteen hundred and nine*, authorising
the levy court of Washington county to appoint an overseer
to clear and make public a road therein mentioned, running
through the lands of the petitioner, and others: And whereas the
said law is calculated to do him great injury and disadvantage;
therefore, |
Preamble.
* Ch. 145. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the act, entitled, An act to clear and make public a road in Washington
county, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and
nine, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
Act repealed. |
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CHAP. CXV.
An Act to incorporate the President and Directors of the Athenian
Society. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 590.
This act repealed by 1815, ch. 216. |
Passed Dec. 25. |
WHEREAS William Malin, an alien, heretofore residing
in Baltimore
county, died possessed of an equitable interest, in fee-simple,
in and to one hundred and sixty and three quarter acres of land,
being part of a tract lying in the county aforesaid, named Flagg
Meadows, which said land had been purchased by the said Malin
from a certain Harry D. Gough, now deceased, on a credit, he the
said Gough retaining the legal title therein until the debt be satisfied,
which still remains due to the estate of the said Gough: And
whereas the said Malin did make and execute his last will and testament,
by which the said equitable interest is directed to be sold,
and a portion of the money arising therefrom to be applied towards
building and supporting a school in the neighbourhood of said land,
which said devise is void, the said Malin, for want of a naturalization,
being incapable to purchase and hold land except to and for
the use of the state of Maryland; but this general assembly anxious
at all times to assist in the promotion of learning, and being willing
to release its right in and to the said land for the purpose of
carrying into effect the object of said will, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Jonathan Parish, Robert Davis, Stephen Parish, Thomas Jordan
and Joseph Willis, and their successors in office, duly elected as
herein after set forth, be, and they are hereby declared to be, one
community, corporation and body politic, for ever hereafter, by
the name and style of The President and Trustees of the Malin
School, and by that name they shall be and are hereby made capable
in law to have and hold by gift, purchase or devise, real, personal
or mixed property, in fee simple, for a term of years, life or
otherwise, and the same to use, grant, demise, alien or dispose of,
in such manner as the said trustees may judge most conducive to
the benefit of said institution, subject nevertheless to the following
provisions, terms, conditions and regulations: |
School incorporated. |
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