ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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307. Every will and other testamentary instrument

made out of the state by a citizen thereof shall be held

to be valid, if the same be made according to the forms

required by the law of the place where the same was

Where held to
be valid.

made, or by the law of the place where such person

was residing when the same was made, and the said

will, when so executed, shall be admitted to .probate

in any orphans' court of this state.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall not

affect or be applicable in anywise to any will or be-

When effective.

pest executed prior to the first day of August, eigh-

teen hundred and eighty-four.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 394.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the trustees of

Grace Presbyterian Church at Kennedyville, Kent

county, Maryland, to sell and convey certain real

estate in Kent county, known as the Old Brick

Church Ground.

WHEREAS James Welch and Rachel Welch, his wife,

by deed, dated December fourth, seventeen hundred

and sixty-two, duly executed, acknowledged and re-

corded among the land records for Kent county afore-

said, in liber D. D. number one, folio one hundred and

eighty-nine, sold and conveyed to Robert Maxwell,

Colin Ferguson and John Maxwell, trustees for the

Presbyterian congregation of Kent county, Maryland,

and their successors, a certain parcel of land in said

county, situated on the road then known as the great

Preamble

road leading from Chestertown to Georgetown, now

known as the road leading from Morgan's creek neck

to Black's cross roads, adjoining the lands lately pur-

chased by Thomas W. Eliason. senior, from the estate

of the late William Welch, and containing about one-

half an acre of land; and whereas the old church for-

merly standing there has been long since abandoned

and disappeared, and the place of worship been re-

moved to Kennedyville, and a new and comfortable