GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

and skins in the city of Baltimore, which oath or affirma-

CHAP 247.

tion, (as the case may be,) when taken and reduced to wri-

ting shall be lodged in the office of the register of said city

to be by him recorded.

Sec. 17. And be it enacted, That each of said arbitrators

Compensation to

shall, for every such arbitration as aforesaid, in which he

arbitrators.

shall act upon, be. entitled to receive the sum of one

dollar, to be paid by the person or persons making such ap-

peal, in case the decision appealed from shall be affirmed,

or in case of the reversal of such decision, then by the in-

spector making the same.

CHAPTER 246.

An act for the relief of Eliza Kite, of the city of Baltimore.

Passed Mar. 9,1832

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-

Divorce.

ryland, That the said Eliza Kite, be, and she is hereby di-

vorced from bed, board and mutual cohabitation with her

husband, Benjamin Kite.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Benjamin Kite,

Liabilities annul-

shall not be liable for any debt, to be hereafter contracted

led.

by the said Eliza Kite, nor be entitled to any property

which she now has or may hereafter acquire; and the said

Eliza Kite shall, to every effect, intent and purpose, be

capable, in law and equity, to take and to hold and dispose

of any property, and make and be bound by any contracts

or engagements, as if she were a feme sole, and had never

Feme sole.

been married; Provided however, That nothing herein con

tained shall authorise the said Eliza to contract marriage

Proviso.

during the life of the said Benjamin Kite, nor the said Ben-

jamin, during the life of the said Eliza.

CHAPTER 247.

An act to make valid a deed from Grafton Duvall and Eli

Passed Mar. 8,1832

zabeth W. Duvall, his wife, to Alexander Thomas Haw

kins Duvall.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly
that Grafton Duvall and Elizabeth W. Duval, his wife, did

Preamble,

on the twelfth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred

and thirty-one, execute, acknowledge, and deliver to Alex

ander Thomas Hawkins Duvall, their deed of bargain and