JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1827

from all claim on the part of the said Temperance Hudson to
dower, or to a distributive share therein, and of and from all
claim of any nature or description whatsoever -of the said
Temperance; and that the said James Hudson shall not be
liable for any debts to be hereafter contracted by the said
Temperance Hudson.

CH AP. 125

CHAPTER 126.

An act for the relief of Margaret Yingling of Frederick county.

Passed March

1828.

WHEREAS, Margaret Yingling, of Frederick county, hath
set forth by her petition to this General Assembly, that,
some time heretofore, a certain Jacob Yingling, as adminis-
trator of a certain John Yingling, deceased, exposed at public
sale, by order of the orphan's court of Frederick county, a
certain lot of ground and premises, in the town of Westmins-
ter, in said countv, and distinguished as lot number twen-
ty-five, on the plot of said town, at which said sale she became
the purchaser of said lot, and, afterwards, received from said
administrator a conveyance for the same, bearing date the
twenty-fourth day of November, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixteen, and which was recorded on the second day
of December, of the same year, in liber 18, number three, folio
six hundred and seventy-one and six hundred and seventy-two,
one of the bad records of the county aforesaid. And whereas,
she has further set forth, that it has been found, upon examina-
tion, that the estate of the said deceased, in the said Lot and
premises was not an unexpired term of years, as it had been er-
roneously supposed, but an estate in fee, merely subject to an
annual ground rent, and forming no part of the personal assets
of the said deceased; and that in consequence thereof, her title,
under said sale and conveyance, is wholly imperfect at law, and
that she is wholly without relief, except in legislative aid:

Preamble

Therefore,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland^ That
the title, interest and estate of the said Margaret Yingling,
her heirs and assigns, in and to the said lot and premises,
"being number twenty-five, with the appurtenances, in the
town of Westminster aforesaid, be, and the same are hereby
declared to be, to all intents and purposes, both at law and in
equity, of such force, quality, nature and validity, as if the
said Jacob Yingling had been duly authorised, as trustee, by
a decree of the high court of chancery, upon pioper proceed-
ings before them had for the purpose, to sell and dispose of
the same for the benefit of the heirs at law of the said de-
ceased, and had actually made said sale to the said Margaret
Yingling, and had executed the said conveyance heretofore
mentioned, not as administrator, but as such trustee under
the authority and direction of the high court of chancery, and
as if said sale had been duly ratified and confirmed by the
said high court of chancery, any thing in any acts of assembly
to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding

Proceeding en-
tified.