E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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from the fact that the share of each child must necessarily
consist of several and distant allotments and in
different States; that the existing laws of the States of
Maryland and Delaware respectively, furnish to the petitioners
no authority for assigning the said dower, and
making partition of the said residue among the said
three children, in any other way than by assigning the
dower, and dividing the residue into the whole number
of parts in each of said States; that by reason of the
infancy of the said George H. Raymond, it will be
some time before he will be capable of joining in any arrangement
for partition by deed, and that the interest and
estates of said children respectively, would be greatly
spoiled by being so cut up and subdivided; and the petitioners
further represented that the Legislature of the State
of Delaware, have passed an act for the relief in the premises,
and praying this General Assembly may pass such
concurrent act, as taken together with the said act of
the Legislature of Delaware, will authorise the making
the whole of said lands, tenements and hereditaments,
the subject of a single assignment of dower and partition
as aforesaid, and by said act, may among other things,
name commissioners in the State of Maryland, to act
together with commissioners already appointed in the
State of Delaware, to make and complete said assignment
of dower and partition, in such manner as said
commissioners shall judge will best promote the interest
of the said partitioners, doing equal justice to them
all, and this General Assembly considering it reasonable
and expedient to grant the prayer of said petition;
Therefore,
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John E. Cacy and William F.
Smyth, of Kent county, in the State of Maryland, with
James D. Wilds, John Mustard and William Collins,
of Kent county in the State of Delaware, are hereby
appointed commissioners, and authorised, empowered
and required, to go to the said lands, tenements and
hereditaments, of which the said Jacob Raymond, deceased,
died seized as aforesaid, as well as those situated
in the State of Maryland as those situated in the
State of Delaware, and with the assistance of a skilful
surveyor by them to be nominated and appointed, lay off
and allot to the said Eliza B. Raymond, widow of
the said Jacob Raymond, one equal third part of the
said lands, tenements and hereditaments, regard being
had to quality as well as quantity, to have and to
hold to the said Eliza B. Raymond, and for her use,
for and during the term of her natural life, and no
longer, as her dower therein, and the said commissioners
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Commissioners
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