JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1826.

CHAP. LXXXVI

An Act to divorce Henrietta Hewitt, and her husband William llcwitt, of
th£ City of Baltimore.

1. Be, it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said Henrietta Hewitt be and she is hereby divorced
from bed, board and mutual cohabitation, with her husband Wil-
liam Hewitt.

CHAP. 86.

Passed Feb 14, 1837
Divorce granted

2. And be it enacted, That the said William Hewitt shall
not, by virtue of his marriage with the said Henrietta Hewitt,
be authorised to have or claim any right or interest in the eg-
tate real, personal or mixed, of the said Henrietta Hewitt, to be
by her acquired after the passage of this act; nor shall Henriet-
ta Hewitt be authorised to have or claim any right or interest
in the estate real, personal or mixed, of the said William Hew-
itt, to be by him acquired after the passage of this. act.

Property hereafter
acquired to be held
independently of
catch her

3. And be it enacted, That the said Henrietta Hewitt 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 had never been mar-
ried.

H. Hewitt to have
the privileges of a
feme sole

4. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid Henrietta Hewitt
be, and she is hereby declared to be, entitled to the custody and
guardianship of her children by her, present marriage, during
their minority.

To have the guar-
dianship of her
children

5. And be it enacted, That the said William Hewitt shall
hot be liable for any debt to be hereafter contracted by the said
Henrietta Hewitt.

Wm Hewitt not
table for her
debit

CHAP. LXXXVII.
An Act for the opening of Ensor Street in the City of Baltimore.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That James Mosher, George Decker, Henry Stouffer, Robert
Carey Long, and John Ogston, or a majority of them, be and
they are hereby appointed a board of commissioners, to open
Ensor street in the city of Baltimore, from the north side of
Forest-street, northwardly, to the south side of Monument-
street, of the width of fifty-three feet, measuring from a line
which would be found to be the west side of said street conti-
nued, as located to the south ward of Forest street aforesaid; and
whenever a vacancy in said board may occur, by the refusal to
act, resignation, death, or other inability of any of the said
commissioners, the remainder of said commissioners, or so many
ef them as may consent to act, shall supply such vacancy by a
new appointment or appointments, and a majority of said com-
missioners shall be competent to perform the duties of said
board.

Passed Feb. 18, 1827

Commissioners ap-
pointed to open,
street

2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, after
having given ten days notice in two of the newspapers printed
in the city of Baltimore, shall proceed to ascertain and deter-
mine what damages will be sustained by the owners of property
lying within or adjacent to the said street, by reason of the
opening thereof, taking into consideration all advantages and dis-
advantages.

To ascertain da-

mages