JOSEPH KENT; ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1827

CHAPTER 62.

CHAP. 62.

An additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act concerning
Crimes and Punishments passed at November session one
thousand eight hundred and nine.

Passed January 28

1828

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That any person who may pass within this state any
forged or counterfeited note or notes, knowing them to be
such, purporting to be the genuine note or notes of a hank which
has been, or may be regularly constitute J by this state, or
any of the United States, ar by the United States, shall be
deemed a felon, and shall, on being duly convicted thereof,
be sentenced to undergo confinement in, the Penitentiary for
a period not less than five, nor more than ten years, to be
treated as directed by the act to which this is a supplement

Penalty for passing
forged notes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person shall he con-
victed a second lime of the aforesaid crime, such person shall
be sentenced to undergo confinement in the Penitentiary for
a period not less than ten, nor more than twenty years

For second offence

CHAPTER 63,

An act for the benefit of William W. Whittington, Charlotte
Whittington. John R. Whittington and Robert H. Whitting-
ton, the infant children and heirs at law and representatives
of William Whittington, late of Worcester county deceased.

Passed January
1828

WHEREAS, it vs represented to this general assembly by the
petition of the administrator of the said William Whittington,
and the guardian in fact of Charlotte Whittington, a child
heir at law and representative of the said William Whitting-
ton, that .the said William Whittington died intestate; that
his personal estate was insufficient for the payment of his
debts: that a decree was passed on the chancery side of Wor-
cester county court, whereby the said administrator was ap-
pointed trustee, to make sale of as much of the real estate
whereof the said William Whittington, died seized, as would
be sufficient to discharge the balance of his debts, after the
exhaustion of his personal estate for that ourpose; that a va-
luable portion of the said real estate has not yet been sold by
the said trustee, and that the whole amount of the real and
personal assets of the said William Whittington, which have
come to the hands of his said administrator and trustee, is in-
sufficient tor the payment of his debts: Aad whereas it is also
represented to this general assembly, that the said William W.
Whittington, Charlotte Whittington, John R. Whittington
and Robert H, Wilmington, are seized of certain real estate,
which descended to them from their mother, and are seized,
and possessed of certain real and personal estate, which they

Preamble.