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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed May
23, 1853.
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CHAPTER 258.
AN ACT to appoint Commissioners to act in conjunction
with Commissioners appointed by an act of the
Legislature of the State of Delaware, passed in January
eighteen hundred and fifty-three, entitled, an act
for the relief of the widow and heirs of Jacob Raymond,
deceased, to make partition of the real estate
of said Jacob Raymond, of which he died seized, in
fee and intestate, lying in Kent County, Delaware, and
in Kent County, Maryland, and to assign dower to the
Widow of said deceased, in said lands and premises.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, Eliza B. Raymond, the
widow of Jacob
Raymond, late of Smyrna, in Kent county, in the State
of Delaware, deceased, Susan H. Raymond, Martha A.
Cummins and George H. Raymond, the latter by the
said Eliza B. Raymond, his mother and next friend, children
of the said Jacob Raymond, deceased, and his only
heirs at law, and Daniel Cummins, who intermarried
with and is the husband of the said Martha A. Cummins,
and of the said county and State, by their petition in
writing to this General Assembly, represent, that the
said Jacob Raymond, was in his life time, and at the
time of his death, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two,
seized in his demesne as of fee, of divers lands, tenements
and hereditaments, situate partly in the State of
Maryland, and partly in the State of Delaware, that under
the law of descents of the States of Maryland and Delaware,
respectively, the said lands, tenements and hereditaments,
have descended to and upon the said three children
of said deceased, as equal coparcency in fee simple,
subject to the right of dower therein of the said Eliza B.
Raymond, widow of said deceased, that the said George
H. Raymond, is an infant, under the age of twenty-one
years, and it was further represented by said petitioners,
that if all the said lands and premises, can be brought into
one assignment of dower and partition, as if the same
were situated wholly in this State or in the State of Delaware,
the two-third part thereof would be capable of
being divided among the said children of said deceased,
into three equal parts, regard being had to quality as
well as quantity, each of which would constitute a competency,
but that if dower should be assigned to the
said widow in both States, and the residue remaining
in each after such assignment be divided into three equal
parts among the said children, the portions of said children
respectively would be greatly diminished in value,
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