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LAWS, OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 667.

AN ACT to authorize the Comptroller of the State Treasury

to sell and convey certain real estate in Charles County,

standing in the name of the State, to Montgomery A. Car-

penter and Carrie B. Carpenter.

Land sold to

WHEREAS, Heretofore, to wit. : About the year 1883 Leigh

satisfy a bail

M. Southerland, sheriff of Charles County, in execution of a

piece.

writ issued out of the Circuit Court for Prince George's

County against the lands and tenements of George W. Car-

penter, Jr., and John E. Carpenter, the said George W. Car-

penter, Jr., being under bond to answer a charge against him

in said court, and the said John E. Carpenter being one of

his bondsman, which bail piece was forfeited; sold to the

State of Maryland the interest in remainder of the said George

W. Carpenter, Jr., and John E. Carpenter in and to certain

real estate in Charles County subject to the life estate of

George W. Carpenter, Sr., which life estate has recently termi-

nated by the death of the said George W. Carpenter, Sr.,

the said interest of the George W. Carpenter, Jr., and John

Description

E. Carpenter being two-thirds of a tract of land known as

of land.

"Cherry Tree," containing in the whole about ten hundred

acres, and also another tract of land known as "Saint Ed-

ward's," containing about three hundred and sixty-five acres,

in which the interest of the said George W. Carpenter, Jr.,

and John E. Carpenter was one-third of the whole; and

Depreciated

WHEREAS, The said property has greatly depreciated in

in value.

value; and

WHEREAS, The State of Maryland, in order to assert and

The State's
lien on same.

maintain its title in said land to the extent of its lien or claim

thereon, would now be compelled to institute a suit on the

equity side of the Circuit Court for Charles County, either

for partition in kind, or else for a sale of partition, which

would be both expensive and tedious; and

Records of the

WHEREAS, As far as the records of the Comptroller's office

Comptroller's
office.

show, this is the only instance of such acquisition of real estate

by the State, under such proceedings; and

To purchase

WHEREAS, The said Montgomery Carpenter and Carrie B.

State's inter-

Carpenter, brother and sister of the said George W. Carpenter,

est.

Jr., and John E. Carpenter, are desiring of purchasing the

interest of the State of Maryland in their maternal property;

therefore,