DEEDS, WILLS, JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, &c. 87

JOHN S. CLAYTON AND SAMUEL E. CLAYTON.

AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners fur Kent county to sell find convey to John
S. Clayton and Samuel K. Clayton a certain part of the public landing on Mor-
gan's Creek, and to condemn a portion of the bed and waters of said Creek for
their use.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Commissioners for Kent county be and they are hereby author-
ized and empowered to sell and convey unto John S. Clayton and
Samuel E. Clayton, of said county, for cash, or on reasonable credit, as to
them may seem best, the following part of the public landing on Mor-
gan's Creek, which was condemned and taken off the land now owned
by Mrs. B. Riley, the wife of Joseph Riley, which said part begins at
low water-mark, on Morgan's Creek opposite a cedar tree, and running
thence northwest, eighty-six feet, to a large cedar tree on Mill Creek,
then with Mill Creek and marsh, one hundred and ninety-eight feet to
Morgan's Creek, then one hundred and twenty feet to the place of be-
ginning; and to apply the proceeds of said sale, to such county pur-
poses as in their judgment may be proper.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid be
and they are hereby authorized and empowered to have surveyed and
laid off, by the county Surveyor, a portion of the bed of Morgan's
Creek, opposite the aforesaid part of the said public landing, extending
from high water-mark, to a depth of water sufficient for vessels carrying
grain or other produce to float at ebb-tide, and to condemn the same
for the use of the said John S., Clayton and Samuel E. Clayton and
their heirs; provided, such appropriation of the said Creek shall not
in their opinion obstruct or prejudice the navigation thereof.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid be and
they are hereby authorized and empowered to annex such conditions
and restrictions to said sale and condemnation as they may deem con-
ducive to the public interest.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said county Commissioners, in
their discretion, may sell and convey to V. Burgess Hines, of Kent
county, a portion not exceeding thirty by fifty feet of the public ground
held by the said county on Graysen Creek, in the first election district
of Kent county.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.