JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1826.

if he were of sane mind and memory, and had executed the
same in person.

CHAP. 190.

3. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be law-
ful for the Patapsco Fire Company aforesaid, to take and accept
from the said Rachel Colvin and Samuel Colvin, a good and suf-
ficient deed for the first and secondly above described pieces or
parcels of ground, and to hold, occupy, possess and enjoy the
same, upon the performance, in every respect, on their part, of
the contracts alluded to in the second section of this act, so far
as the said Richard Colvin, Rachel Colvin and Samuel Colvin,
or any or either of them, are or may be interested in the per-
formance or fulfilment thereof by the said company.

Company autho-
rised to receive a
deed

CHAP. CXCI.
An Act for the benefit of James Wolfenden and Joseph Jameson, of Balti-

more county.

Passed Mar 9, 1827

WHEREAS the said James Wolfenden, in or about the year
eighteen hundred and fifteen, purchased of a certain Robert Big-
ham, since deceased, four acres of land in Baltimore county,
supposed to be contained in a tract of land called Lewis' Pur-
chase, and for which he paid the sum of fpur hundred dollars:
And whereas the said Wolfenden has since built upon a part of
said four acres a small dwelling-house and stable: And whereas
a certain Joseph Jameson, of the city of Baltimore, being the
owner of another part of the said tract called Lewis' Purchase,
heretofore, to wit, on the third day of February, eighteen hun-
dred and twenty-six, obtained- a special warrant of resurvey up-
on said tract: And whereas it appears by the certificate of the
•surveyor of Baltimore county, by whom said warrant of resur-
vey was executed, elated the second of February eighteen hun-
dred and twenty-seven, that that part of said four acres, pur-
chased as aforesaid by the said James Wolfenden, upon which
the improvements aforesaid have been by him erected, is not in
fact a part of the said tract called Lewis' Purchase, but vacant
land adjoining said tract, and as such has been laid out for said
Joseph Jameson, under the said special warrant of resurvey, and
the said improvements thereon have been valued in the said cer-
tificate of resurvey at one hundred and fifty dollars: And where-
as it appears that the said Jameson is willing if released from
the payment of the said estimated value of said improvements,
to secure the title thereto, and of the land upon which the same
stands, to the said James Wolfenden : And whereas it appears to
the satisfaction of the legislature, that the said improvements
were built by said Wolfenden in entire ignorance that the same
were not upon the said tract called Lewis' Purchase, Therefore,

Preamble

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said Joseph Jameson be and he is hereby released and
discharged from the payment of the said sum of one hundred
and fifty dollars, being the estimated virtue of the said improve-
ments erected by the said James Wolfenden, and returned in
the said certificate of resurvey of the second of February eigh-

J. Jamison re-

leased from pay-
ment of certain
money

teen hundred and twenty-seven; Provided however, that this
met shall be of no avail unless the said Joseph Jameson shall du-
ty transfer to the said James Wolfeaden, his heirs and assigns,

Proviso