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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
limits of this state, before the adoption of the constitution of the
United States of America, and who have continued and remained
inhabitants of this state, shall be deemed, construed, and taken to
have been, and they hereby are declared to have been, and to be
respectively entitled, to all and singular the immunities, privileges,
rights and advantages, of natural born citizens, so far as to enable
such persons to acquire right, title and interest in, and to hold,
possess and enjoy, lands, tenements and ral estate, within this
state, and to transmit and transfer the same in the same manner as
natural born citizens of this state; and all property, real, personal
and mixed, acquired and transferred by, from, through, or under
the said persons, or any of them, or their or any of their descendants,
shall be held, possessed, enjoyed or transferred, in like
manner as if the said persons had respectively been and were at
the several times of acquiring and transferring such property natural
born citizens of this state; and all and every person or persons
whatsoever, being citizens of this or some one of hte United
States, claiming any real estate by, from or under, the said persons
first herein before described, or their or any of their descandants,
by gift, grant, purchase, descent or otherwise, shall hold,
possess and enjoy the same, in like manner as if the said persons
had respectively been and were, at the several times of acquiring
and transferring such real estate, natural born citizens of this
state; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed
to interefere with or affect the rights of any person or persons acquired
before the passage of this act. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 105.
the U.S. to be entitled
to the privileges,
&c. of citizens.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CVI.
An Act for the benefit of Robert Gorsuch, late Collector of Baltimore
County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 121.
See 1814, ch. 77. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1814. |
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CHAP. CVII.
An Act for the benefit of Jacob Medtart, of Frederick County.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 122. A Private Act.
His title confirmed in lot No. 6, being
part of a tract of land called Long Acre,
being part of Tasker's Chance, as fully as if he had been complainant
in the decree
made in the court of chancery, instead of the name of John Medtart, senior,
against Coppenheffer and Whitmore, and others. |
Passed Jan. 2, 1814. |
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CHAP. CVIII.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Cecil County.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 123. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1814. |
WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Cecil county have
preferred a
petition to this general assembly, praying that a road may be
opened and laid out in said county; and the prayer of the petitioners
appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
George Gale, Samuel C. Hall and John Stump, of said county, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the purposes of
this act, and that they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised
and required to survey and lay out a road, not exceeding
thirty feet wide, clear of ditches, beginning at Port Deposit, and
running as nearly straight as the nature of the ground will admit
of, until it intersects the road from the lower ferry on Susquehanna |
Commissioners appointed
to survey
and lay out road. |
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