HANNAH K. CHASE'S CASE.—1 BLAND. 205

be hereafter determined on a consideration of his trouble, skill, and
diligence in the premises. And it is further ordered, that on the
fifth day of May next, a proper and suitable person will be appointed
a receiver under this order; provided, that on or before that day
the parties may nominate and recommend for the appointment to
the Chancellor, such person or persons as they or either of them
may think proper.

Two of the defendants. Matilda Ridgely and Ann Chase, on the
4th of May, 1826, filed their petition, objecting to the appointment
of a receiver, which petition was then submitted to the Chan-
cellor: but a decision upon it was postponed until a nomination
of a receiver should be made. After which, on the 10th May,
1826, a nomination was made, and the case was again submitted to
the Chancellor.

BLAND, C., 9th June, 1826.—Ordered, that the petition of Ma-
tilda Ridgely and Ann Chase, be dismissed with costs; and that
Peter H. Cruse, of the City of Baltimore, be and he is hereby
appointed a receiver under and according to the order of the 26th
of April last.

After a receiver had been thus appointed and he had taken the
property under his care, the case was prepared and brought on for
a final hearing.

BLAND, C., 28th April, 1827.—This case standing ready for
hearing, the solicitors of both parties were fully heard, and the
proceedings read and considered.

It appears from the bill as amended, and the plaintiff's exhibits,
that the late Samuel Chase, alter and during his marriage with
the plaintiff, became seized in fee simple of a certain real estate,
situated within the City of Baltimore, called the Fountain Inn;
which property, on the 26th day oi February. 1800, he leased to
James Bryden for the term of fifteen years, reserving an annual
rent of 2,000 dollars. The plaintiff, on a privy examination,
acknowledged the validity of this lease, and made a relinquish-
ment of her dower in the usual form. Samuel Chase, the husband
of the plaintiff, died on the 19th April, 1811. The lease to Bryden
expired on the 26th February. 1821. Those who claimed under
*the late Samuel Chase leased this property to Basil Wil-
liamson, who had the possession thereof when this bill was 216
filed. The plaintiff claims one-third of this property as her dower;
and she also claims a remuneration for the rents and profits of her
third part from the death of her husband; and thereupon prays,
that dower may be assigned to her; that the property may be sold
for the payment of the rents and profits due to her; or that the