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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to the sale of the entire real estate, the Orphans'

Court of Baltimore city and the Orphans' Courts

of the several counties of this State shall order

the same to be sold free from any claim of dower,

Free from

and allow the widow such portion of the net pro-

claim of dower

ceeds of sale as may be just and equitable, not ex-

ceeding one-seventh nor less than one-tenth, ac-

cording to the age, health and condition of such

widow, and such amount shall bar all claim of

dower by said widow in such lands.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That such consent in

writing shall be filed and recorded in the office of

the Register of Wills for Baltimore city, and the

Consent filed.

office of the register of wills for the several coun-

ties, and a copy thereof shall also be filed with the

report of sales of such lands and tenements.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 482.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to refund

to Philip Loessell the amount of fine and costs

paid by him for alleged violation of the oyster

law.

WHEREAS, on the eleventh day of January,

eighteen hundred and eighty-one, Captain John

Downey and crew, consisting of seven men in all,

of pungy William D. Howeth, licensed vessel 490,

were arrested and were each fined fifty dollars and

costs, amounting in the aggregate to three hun-

dred and eighty-eight dollars and forty cents, and

were committed to jail, and the pungy, of which

Preamble.

Philip Loessell, of Baltimore city, was the owner,

was held as security for the payment therefor;

that said Philip Loessell was compelled to borrow

the money, being a poor man, to pay said fine and

costs to secure the release of his boat, though he

had ordered the captain to rigidly observe the

State laws, and had especially instructed him not

to dredge on forbidden grounds; that believing he

ought not to be held responsible for the guilt or