100 DEEDS, WILLS, JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, &c.

day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, by William
B. Steele, executor of Joseph Steele, late of Carroll county, deceased,
to John T. Steele, and recorded among the Land Records of Carroll
county, in Liber G. E. W., number twenty-seven, folio four hundred
and eighty-seven, &c., be and the same is hereby legalized and made
valid and effectual to all intents and purposes; provided, that the
rights of third parties be not prejudiced thereby.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the day of its passage.

RICHARD SMYTH.

AN ACT to authorize and empower Joseph A. Harper and John Greenwood, of Wil-
liam, of Kent county to convey cerium land in Kent county, to Richard Smyth, of
said county.

WHEREAS, By an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at
January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chapter two hundred
thirty-two, Nathaniel Wiley and John W Bowman, of Kent county,
were authorized and empowered to sell and convey a certain lot or
part of a tract of land, at or near Bell-Air in said county, called
" Satin Tantons; " and whereas the said Nathaniel Wiley and John
W. Bowman, otherwise called John H. Bowman did sell the said
land to a certain Isaac Rogers, of Kent county, who paid them for
the same, but no deed of conveyance was ever executed by them to
said Isaac Rogers; and whereas, the said Isaac Rogers has since
sold the said land to a certain Richard Smyth of said county, who
has paid the purchase money for the same, but the said Nathaniel
Wiley and John W. Bowman, alias John H. Bowman, have departed
this life, and the said Isaac Rogers and Richard Smyth have peti-
tioned to this General Assembly for the appointment of two persons
with authority to make and execute a deed for the said land to the
said Richard Smyth; therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Joseph
A. Harper and John Greenwood, of William, be and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to convey by deed, duly executed and
acknowledged, to the said Richard Smyth, his heirs and assigns, the
said part of a tract or lot of land lying at or near Bell-Air in Kent
county, containing one acre, more or less, which was conveyed by Ste-
phen Denning to Peregrine Granger, Major Smith, Dobbs Joiner, Sam-
uel Coleman, James S. Primrose, Ezekiel Coleman and Lemuel Cole-
man, of Kent county, trustees for the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Bell-Air, on their being satisfied that the purchase money has been,
paid; that such conveyance shall not prejudice any creditor of said
Isaac Rogers, who were such prior to the sale to Richard -Smyth, and
that this Act shall take effect from its passage..