1827

LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP. 138

of wo warrants of resurvey, issued out of the land office for
the Western Shore, to Richard Caton, on the sixth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and twenty seven, and since assigned to the said Charles
Carroll of Carrollton, by the said Richard Caton, which said
warrants of resurvey were issued to authorise the resurvey
of sundry lots and parcels of land which were conveyed in
trust by the said Charles Carroll of Carrollton, on the four-
teenth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty two, to
Robert Patterson, John Eager Howard, junior, and Henry
M. Murray, and the survivors and survivor, and the heirs of
the survivors of them, for the use of Richard and Marjr
Caton, under such limitations and for such uses as are set
forth in said deed; and whereas it appears that the rules of
the land offices do not permit the issuing of a patent upon any
surveys made under warrants of resurvey under such circum-
Stances: Therefore,

Certificate to be
received — patent
issued

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the register of the land office for the Western Shore be, and
he is hereby authorised and directed to receive any certificate
or certificates of survey which shall be made and returned
tinder said warrants of resurvey, or either of them, at any
time hereafter, by the said Charles Carroll of Carrollton, to
the said land office: and that the said register shall be, and
he is hereby aut horised and directed to issue patent or pa-
tents for the same to the said Charles Carroll of Carrollton,
tor the land included in any such certificates thus made and
returned, after the said certificate or certificates shall have
become ready for patent, according to the rules of the land
office.

CHAPTER 139,

Passed March 8,

1828

An act authorising the trustees of Primary Schools in Queen
Anns county to condemn ground for the purposes of build-
ing school homes thereon in said county

Authority granted

proceedings di-

rected

SECTION 1. Be h enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That in case the trustees of any school district should
not be able to purchase or lease a suitable site for the erection
of their school house, they shall have power to value and
assess a convenient lot, with the improvements thereon, if any,
»ot exceeding one acre of land, for that purpose, and the de-
cision of the said trustees, as to the worth of the said land and
improvements, if any, shall be final and conclusive, unless an
appeal shall be prosecuted as hereinafter provided, and the
amount of damage for the land and improvements, if any, so
valued and assessed as aforesaid, being paid or offered to be
paid to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, of
which payment or ofter to pay, a certificate signed by a ma-
jority of the said trustees, and recorded among the land
records of the proper county, or a copy of such record duly