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CHAP. 98
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the term of ninety-nine years renewable forever, at and
under such yearly rent as shall be approved by the orphans'
court of Baltimore county, securing the rent to said Maria
during life, and alter death to all hex children: and praying
that a law may pass for the aforesaid purpose — Therefore,
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Authority granted
to lease.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
upon application by petition to the court of chancery on
the part oi Luther J. Cox and Maria his wife, and of the
children of said Maria, by their guardian or next friend,
the said court of chancery may order, adjudge and decree
that the said lots of ground be demised for a term of ninety-
nine years renewable forever, yielding such rent and subject
to such terms and conditions as in that behalf shall be as
hereinafter provided, finally approved, ratified and confirm-
ed by said court, and said court shall in and by said decree,
or at such time in the course of said proceeding as it may
deem proper, determine and prescribe how and to whom
the said rents and the benefit of said terms and conditions
shall be reserved, so however, that in said rent the said
Maria be provided an estate for her life, separate from and
exclusive of her said or any future husband, and free from
any liability at all times on account of any contracts or
debts or liabilities of such husband, and subject to such
conditions for her benefit and such disposing power in her
and restrictions in that respect, as to said court shall seem
proper, and so that the said rent as to the further reserva-
tion thereof, be reserved in course and manner as the said
court shall direct, to conform to the limitations of the last
will and testament aforesaid, of said Christian in respect of
said lots of ground, and said share of said Maria; and for
making such lease, the said court may appoint a trustee, for
the performance of whose trust said trustee shall execute
bond with security to be approved by the court as is re-
quired generally in cases of sales of land by a trustee under
decrees of said court, and in such penalty as the court shall
prescribe, and said court shall have the same power as to
substitution at any time or times of any trustee or trustees
for the trustee appointed as aforesaid, as is usual or lawful
in said court in cases of sales as aforesaid — and said trustee
shall make report of his proceedings in such a manner as is
required in sales as aforesaid — which proceedings, unless
ratified and confirmed by said court shall be of no effect,
and said court in order to such ratification and confirmation
may act and proceed in manner as is practised in said court,
in and about the ratification and confirmation of such sales
as aforesaid; and upon such ratification and confirmation
the demise or demises in the premises shall be valid and
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