JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1827

council, returning no person coming within the limits of this act, then it shall be the duty of the Goveinor to select one deaf and dumb person from the city of Baltimore, or the county of this state, whose levy court, county commissioners, or mayor and city council, shall return the largest number of deaf and dumb indigent white persons within the provisions of this act, who shall be sent to said institution for instruction and so on to the county returning next largest number, until the number of twenty deaf and dumb indigent white persons shall have been completed, if so many be returned by the se- veral levy courts, county commissioners, or mayor and city council, to the Governer of this state,

CHAP. 140

CHAPTER 141,
An act for the relief of the Creditors and Infant Devisees of Thomas Beall, (of Samuel) late of Allegany County	Passed March 1 1828.
WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly, That Thomas Beall, (of Samuel,) late of Allegany county, departed this life, leaving a considerable real estate, which was by him divised to certain of his infant grand children: And whereas, in consequence of the insufficiency of his per- sonal estate for the payment of his debts, a bill for the sale of his real estate has been filed at the instance of his creditors, in Allegany county court, as a court of equity, in which a de- cree will shortly be rendered by said court: And whereas it appears that said real estate consisted in part of two tracts of land, lying and being in Allegany county, called and known by the name of the Walnut Bottom and the Brothers, or the re-survey on the brothers, for the recovery of a part of which said tracts of land, a suit was instituted by the said Thomas Beall, (of Samuel,) and is now pending in Washington coun- ty court, at the suit of the devisees of said Beall: And where- as it is important both with reference to the interests of the infant devisees of said property, and of the creditors of the said Beall, that no sale should be made of the land in dis- pute, in said action before said action is heard and determin- ed: Therefore,	Preamble.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That no decree shall be rendered by the said Allegany county court, or by the high court of Chancery of this state, for the sale of any part of the said real estate of the said Thomas Beall, (of Samuel,) the title of the said Beall to which is contested, and put in issue by the said action, now pending in Washington county court, until the same shall have been finally heard and determined, or non pressed, dismissed, on otherwise ended.	Decree suspended