88 DEEDS, WILLS, JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, &c.

FERDINAND DIFFENBACH.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Judge of the Circuit Court for Carroll county,
sitting as a Court of Equity, to pass a decree fur the sale of the lands and premises
of which Ferdinand Diffenbach, late of Carroll county, died seized and possessed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Circuit Court for Carroll county, as a court of Equity, be and
the same is hereby authorized, on a bill filed by a creditor or creditors
of Ferdinand Diffenbach, late of said county, deceased, against his heirs
at law or other proper parties, to pass a decree for a sale of the real
estate of the deceased for payment of his debts; provided, that the
proper representatives of the said deceased, who are of full age and in
the State, shall by writing filed in the cause, expressly waive their right
to stay execution of said sale, under the provisions of the act passed at
the extra session of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, chapter
seventeen, and that the Court shall be satisfied that an immediate sale
of said real estate will not prejudice the interests of any of the said
representatives who shall or may be under age or absent from the
State; and provided, that in all other respects the Court shall be of
opinion that the complainant is entitled to the relief prayed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Trustee to be ap-
pointed by said Court to make said sale, shall have power and authority
to make said sale, privately or publicly, as he may in his judgment deem
most expedient, having first given public notice, by advertisement for
three successive weeks, of the time, place, manner and terms of sale, and
that said Trustee be authorized, on the payment of the full purchase
money and interest, to convey said real estate and premises to the pur-
chaser, by a good, valid and sufficient deed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.

ELIZABETH AND FRANKLIN DUYER.

AN ACT to make valid a deed from Charles Johnson to Elizabeth and Franklin

Duyer.

WHEREAS, by a deed dated the twenty-ninth day of June, eighteen-
hundred and sixty-one, a certain Charles Johnson, of Harford county,
executed a deed and duly acknowledged the same, conveying a cer-
tain piece of land therein described, to Elizabeth and Franklin Duyer,
recorded among the land records of said Harford county, in Liber
W. G., number twelve, folio three hundred and eighteen; but the
said deed although signed by said Charles Johnson is defective, for
the want of the proper seal and attestation of the said grantor, and
the said grantor has since died; therefore,