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CHAP. 196. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
enable them duly and fully in law, to execute all things touching
and concerning the design and intent of their said corporation, for
the benevolent succour and relief of such distressed and deserving
citizens as the regulations and by-laws of said corporation authorise,
and to effect the end of their institution requires. |
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Passed Jan. 7, 1812. |
CHAP. CXCVII.
An Act to authorise the Chancellor to decree a Sale of Certain Lands.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 285. A Private Act.
The chancellor empowered to decree
a sale of the land mentioned in the bill
filed in the case between Peter Abrams, and others, and
Samuel Jones and
others, and to divide the proceeds of such sale among
the parties entitled to receive
the same. |
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Passed Jan. 7, 1812. |
CHAP. CXCVIII.
An Act for the relief of Upton Ross, of Calvert County. Lib.
TH.
No. 3, fol. 286. |
Levy authorised
for his support. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the justices of the levy court of Calvert county, shall and they are
empowered, at their levy court annually, so long as they shall see
cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property of said county,
a sum of money not less than twenty-five dollars, for the support
and maintenance of the said Upton Ross, and that the same be collected
annually by the collector of Calvert county, and by him paid
to the said Upton Ross or his order. |
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Passed Jan. 7, 1812. |
CHAP. CXCIX.
An Act authorising Thomas Ennalls, former Sheriff and Collector
of
Dorchester County to complete his Collection.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol.
286. |
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Passed Jan. 7, 1812. |
CHAP. CC.
A Further Additional Supplement to the act (a)
entitled, An act to
direct Descents. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 287.
< NAME = "note a">(a) 1785, ch. 45. See 1802, ch.
94, and the acts there referred to. |
| Preamble.
* Ch. 28. |
WHEREAS by an act of assembly passed at November
session
eighteen hundred and ten*, entitled, A further additional supplement
to an act, entitled, An act to direct descents, a mistake has
been committed in point of date in referring to an antecedent law;
for remedy whereof, and for other purposes, |
Persons entitled to
life-estate in an
undivided part of
any real estate by
deed or devise. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
where any person is entitled by deed or devise to a life estate in
an
undivided part of the real estate of any deceased person, the same
proceedings shall be had as are directed with regard to tenancies
by the courtesy, by an act passed at November session eighteen
hundred and nine, chapter one hundred and sixty; and where any
person is entitled by deed or devise to the remainder after such life
estate, the same proceedings shall be had as are directed by law,
when a person is entitled to an undivided part of any deceased person's
estate, subject to a tenancy by the courtesy. |
Acts done under
former law to have
effect. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts done by
virtue of the act
of assembly passed at November session eighteen hundred and ten,
entitled, A further additional supplement to an act to direct descents,
shall have the same operation and effect in law, as if the said
act had referred to the act of eighteen hundred and nine, instead |
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