GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1851.

and in such cases made and provided, and that said commis-
sioners and any of them appointed in respect of said road,
shall have the same powers and authority, and are subject
to the same rules as to said return as if by said Acts of As-
sembly, the time for said return would not expire until the
end of eight months aforesaid, from and after the passage of
this act.

CHAP. 81,

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners ap-
pointed to locate, lay out, and open a new road from a point
in the Liberty road, near to Josiah Penny's smith shop, by
Nicholas D. Worthington's, John Orstler's, Thomas Glad-
man's, and across the Patapsco falls to a public road at the
Piney falls, that leads from Elias Browns to Cord's smith
shop in Anne Arundel county, shall have the same privilege
to make return of their proceedings to the commissioners of
Baltimore county, and be subject to the same rules and regu-
lations, respecting their proceedings, as is provided by the
first section of this act, in respect to the proceedings of the
commissioners theiein mentioned, and the commissioners of
Baltimore county shall receive the return of said proceed-
ings, and act in the same manner as they are directed to act
on the proceedings of the commissioners mentioned in the
first section of this act, any law to the contrary, notwith-
standing.

Like extension
granted.

CHAPTER 81.

An act for the relief of the widow, heirs and devisees of Ste-
phen Raphel, the elder.

Passed Feb. 11, l833

WHEREAS, Stephen Raphel, the elder, on the eighth day
of June, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety
five, complied with the provisions of the act of seventeen
hundred and seventy nine, chapter sir, entitled, An act of
naturalization, which act had then ceased to be operative
and binding, owing to the passage of an act of Congress to
establish an uniform mode of naturalization previously there-
to; And whereas, since the said eighth day of June, in the
year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, the said
Stephen Raphel acquired by purchase, real property, situa-
ted in this state, and doubts are entertained whether the
said property be not escheatable, and whether since the
death of the said Stephen Raphel his devisees and heirs
have any title to the same: And whereat, it is just and proper
that all claim to the same of the state of Maryland, should
be released and given up— Therefore,

Preamble.