JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1826.

he shall forfeit and pay one hundred, dollars for each and every
such offence, which said line, shall be recovered and appropriat-
ed in the same manner as fines are recovered from persons of-
fending against an act passed at December session eighteen hun-
dred and twenty-five, xelating to the inspection of salted fish
brought to the city of Baltimore.

CHAP. 137.

4. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of. acts pf assem-
bly inconsistent with, or contrary to, the provisions of this act,
be and the same are hereby repealed.

Repeal

CHAP. CXXXVIII
An Act for the relief of Martin Fenwick, of Anne-Arundel County.

WHEREAS Martin Fenwick hath by petition set forth, that
be purchased of a certain Jonathan Neale Laughlin, of Anne-
Arundel county, two small tracts or parcels of land being; parts
of two tracts of land called s Neale's Necessity, and Peake or
Person's Hills, and paid to the said Laughlin a full considera-
tion for the same; that he obtained from the said Laughlin deeds
therefor, which are recorded among the land records, of Anne-
Arundel county, in Liber W. S. G, number six, folios one hun-
dred and fifty -one, and one hundred and fifty-two, and also in
Liber W. S. G, number seven, folios four hundred and sixty-
jpine, four hundred and seventy, and four hundred and seventy-
one, and that the said lands are liable to be escheated since the
death of the said Laughlin; Therefore.

Passed Mar. 3, 1827
Preamble

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all the right, title, interest and estate, which the state of
Maryland now has or may hereafter have, in and to the said
two tracts or parcels of land, be and the same are hereby re-
leased, granted and confirmed, to the said Martin Fenwick;
and his heirs, forever.

Right of state re-
leaed to certain
lands

CHAP. CXXXIX.
An Act for the relief of John Yeamans, of Cecil County.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the marriage con-
tract between John Yeamans and Sarah Yeamans, is hereby de-
clared to be annulled and destroyed, and the said John Yea-
mans is hereby declared to be divorced from his wife Sarah Yea-
mans, as entirely, and to as full extent, as if the said Sarah Yea-
mans were dead, or as if he the said John Yeamans had never
been joined in matrimony with her.

Passed Mar 1,1827

Martian an
nulled

CHAP. CXL.
An Act for the benefit o£ Hester Whitaker and others, the Heirs and Repre-
sentatives of Alexander Whitaker, of Montgomery County, deceased.

WHEREAS the said Hester Whitaker, Lcvi Wiers, and Sarah
Wiers his wife; Eleanor W. Whitaker, Hezekiah Trundle, and
Christiana Trundle his wife, William Cheswell, agent for Eliza-
beth Williams, George W. Whitaker, William H. Whitaker,
Robert A. Whitaker, and Ann G. Whitaker, the widow and
heirs of the said Alexander Whitaker, all being of full age, did
in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four, enter into a writ
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Passed Mar3, 1827

Preamble