GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said widow, by ac-
cepting the provisions of this law, shall be considered as
having relinquished her interest of dower in said five years
rents, and shall forever be debarred from recovering any
portion of said five years rents as dower.

CHAP. 76.

Dower relinquish-
ed.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted. That said rents and profits, for
the said term of five years, shall, as respects the liability
therefor of said administratrix, be deemed and taken to be
personal estate of said Nicholas Snowden, and shall be ac-
counted for as such, to the orphan's court, to which, as ad-
ministratrix, she may be accountable, and to every effect,
as to her and her sureties, in her administration bond, shall
be taken to be within the condition of said bond.

Personal estate as
to liabilities.

CHAPTER 76.

An act for the benefit of Lower West Nottingham Presby-
terian Church.

Passed Feb. 7, 1832

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the leave of the legislature is hereby given to
Lower West Nottingham Presbyterian Church, to hold the
tract of land mortgaged to the said church by a certain
Samuel Ramsey, of Cecil county, according to the purport,
true intent and meaning of the indenture of mortgage.

Leave granted

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said indenture of
mortgage, executed by the said Samuel Ramsey, and an as-
signment of a mortgage from the said Samuel Ramsey to a
certain Zephaniah Bayless, to the said Lower West Not-
tingham Presbyterian Church, and also all proceedings in
Cecil county court, sitting as a court of equity, thereunder,
be and the same are hereby ratified, confirmed and made
valid to all intents and purposes.

Proceedings rati-
fied.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if at the sale of the tract
or tracts of land mentioned in said mortgage and assign-
ment of mortgage, under a decree of Cecil county court as
a court of equity, it should become necessary, in order to
secure the debts due to the said Lower West Nottingham
Presbyterian Church, for the trustees thereof, to become
the purchasers; then, in that case, and in no other, it
shall be lawful for, and the leave of the legislature is here-
by given to the said trustees to become the purchasers of
the said mortgaged premises, in the name and for the use of
the said church in fee simple, upon the terms mentioned in
and prescribed by said decree, and upon the execution

Trustees may par.
chase.