JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 487

CHAPTER 312.
AN ACT to enable the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to convey a good title, in fee, to the
wharf at the southern end of South street, being
the same property that, by a deed dated on or
about the twenty-fourth day of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore conveyed in fee to
Samuel McDonald.
Whereas the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
heretofore sold to Samuel McDonald, in fee, certain
wharf properties at the southern end of South street,
in the city of Baltimore, and he has fully paid the
whole purchase money therefor, and said Mayor and	Preamble.
City Council executed a deed, conveying all their right, title and estate therein to him ; and whereas
doubts have arisen as to the power of said Mayor
and City Council to execute said deed and convey
said properties; and whereas said McDonald has
departed this life ; therefore —
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore city be and they are hereby authorized
and empowered to convey by a good and sufficient deed, in fee, to the heirs at law or assigns of the late	Convey deed to heirs.
Samuel McDonald, all the properties sold him dur-
ing his life time, in fee, in as full and ample a man-
ner as the said Mayor and City Council were entitled
to have, hold and enjoy the same.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1878.