JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1826.

3. And be if enacted; That the said Mary Davis shall have
and exercise all the rights; privileges and immunities, and be
subject to all the legal responsibilities of a feme sole, in the same
manner she would have been if she never had been married.
4. And be it enacted. That the said John Davis shall not be
liable for any debt to be hereafter contracted by the said Mary
Davis.

CHAP. 54.

Mary Davis to
have all the right
of a feme sole

John Davis not li-
able fur debts of
Mary

5. And be it enacted, That the said Mary Davis be, and she
is hereby declared to be, entitled to the custody and guardian-
ship of her children, during their minority, without the moles-
tation, let, hindrance, interference or consent, of the said John
Davis.

Mary to be the

guardian of her
children

CHAP. LV.
An Act to repeal part of an act of Assembly therein mentioned.

Passed Feb 3, 1827

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That so much of the fourth section of the act of assembly, pass-
ed at November session, in the year eighteen hundred and one,
entitled, An act td regulate the inspection of tobacco, as re-
quires the inspectors to hold assessable property in the state, to
the value of eight hundred dollars, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

Part of an set re-
pealed

CHAP. LVI.
An Act for the relief of Henrietta Maria Goldsborough of Baltimore County,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, a deed of bargain
and sale, bearing date on the fourth day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, from
Mary Ward of Baltimore county, in the state of Maryland, to
Henrietta Maria Goldsborough, wife of Doctor Howes Golds-
borough, of the same county and state, for a tract of land lying
in Dorchester county, called Wilton, and also for one undivided
fourth part of a parcel of land, lying in Dorchester county, call-
ed Lady Day, being part of a larger tract called Diamond, shall
be taken and considered in the several courts of law and equity
in the state, and the said deed is hereby declared to be valid and
effectual in law and equity, to pass a fee simple estate to the said
Henrietta Maria Goldsborough, , her heirs and assigns, in the

Passed Feb 5, 1827
A deed made valid

lands and premises mentioned in the said deed; Provided ne-
vertheless, that this act shall have no force and effect whatever,
until the said Howes Goldsborough shall enter into bond to the
state of Maryland, with security to be approved by the orphans
court of Dorchester county, in the penalty of six thousand dol-
lars, and there to be deposited for safe keeping, conditioned for
the payment to whomsoever may be thereto entitled, of the va-
lue of the lands herein before mentioned, in case the said Mary
Ward should not make an appointment by last will and testa-
ment, pursuant to the deed from Henry Ennalls to George
Ward, and the said Mary Ward, giving the said power of ap-
pointment; which bond shall be recorded by the register of wills
of said county, and a copy thereof, certified under the seal of
said court, shall be good evidence to prove the execution of such
bond in any court of this state.

Proviso