| 1805.
Passed Jan. 27, 1806. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XCIII.
An Act authorising the Chancellor in certain cases to decree Conveyances
for Land, the Title to which is in British Subjects.
Lib. TH.
No. 1, fol. 132.
See ch. 99. |
Preamble.
* Ch. 45. |
WHEREAS it has happened that many citizens of this
state have
purchased land lying within this state, and hold the same under a
contract alone for the conveyance thereof, the legal title being outstanding
in British subjects, or vested by law in this state, who
come within the meaning and purview of the act of assembly passed
at October session, seventeen hundred and eighty, * entitled, An
act to seize, confiscate and appropriate, all British property within
this state, and the said purchasers, in some instances, having
paid the whole, and in others, a great part of the purchase money,
and are desirous to complete their contract, and to obtain a legal
title to their land, and doubts having been entertained whether there
exists any competent authority to execute conveyances to the said
purchasers; for remedy whereof, |
Chancellor may
agree respecting
lands, the legal
title to which is
in a British subject,
or in the
state, &c. and
convey to the party
having a legal
claim. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
in all cases in which any citizen of this or of any of the United States
shall have purchased any land lying within this state, the legal title
to which is now outstanding in a British subject, or vested by law
in this state, or who now has a fair and equitable claim to any such
land which had been so purchased, it shall and may be lawful, upon
a bill being filed in the court of chancery, either by the claimant
of such land, or the party who claims to be paid the purchase money
for the land so sold, and upon making the attorney-general a
party, for the chancellor to proceed according to the established
principles of equity and the rules of the court of chancery, to hear
and determine the equity between the parties, and the chancellor
shall thereupon proceed to decree to the parties, legally entitled
thereto, the money still remaining due for the purchase of the said
land, in case any shall be due, and to decree a conveyance of the
said land, and in case none of the said money shall be due, or in
case the party shall comply with the decree of the court, by paying
the money decreed, that then and in such case the chancellor shall,
in the name of the state of Maryland, convey to the said party or
parties having a legal claim to the said land, all the right and
estate which is vested in any British subject, or in the state of
Maryland by virtue of the several acts of assembly in this state.
See 1802, ch. 100, s. 11. |
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Passed Jan. 27, 1806. |
CHAP. XCIV.
An Additional Supplement to an act (a) entitled, An act to
lay out and
establish a Road from the City of Annapolis to the City
of Washington,
and to repeal the Act therein mentioned. Lib.
TH. No. 1,
fol. 133.
(a) 1798, ch. 80. See 1800, ch. 75. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the act to which this is an additional
supplement,
commissioners were appointed to open, clear and grub, a road, not
exceeding thirty feet wide, from the city of Annapolis to the city
of Washington: And whereas the said commissioners have neglected
to cause a part of said road which passes through Prince-George's
county to be opened, cleared and grubbed, in the manner directed |
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