HANNAH K. CHASE'S CASE.

he shall give bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty of ten
thousand dollars, with surety or sureties to be approved by the
Chancellor. The compensation of such receiver shall be hereafter
determined on a consideration pf 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 Jinn Chase, on the
4th of May, 1826, filed their petition, objecting to the appointment
of a receiver, which petition was then submitted to the Chancellor:
but a decision upon it was postponed until a nomination of a re-
ceiver should be made. After which, on the 10th May, 1826, a
nomination was made, and the case was again submitted to the
Chancellor.

9th June, 1826.—BLAND, Chancellor.—Ordered, that the peti-
tion of Matilda 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.

28th April, 1827.—BLAND, Chancellor.—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, after 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 of February, 1806, he leased to
James Bryden for the term of fifteen years, reserving an annual
rent of 2000 dollars. The plaintiff, on a privy examination, ac-
knowledged the validity of this lease, and made a relinquishment
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