T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1861.

CHAPTER 68.

CHAP. 68.

AN ACT to authorize and empower Mary Anna
Biggs, a minor of the State of Delaware to
divide certain real estate and to convey by good
and sufficient deed or deeds, such part thereof
as may be necessary to complete such division,
and to accept and hold her proportion thereof in
severalty as though she were of full age.

Passed June
22, 1861.

WHEREAS, John Biggs late of the State of Dela-
ware, died intestate on the fifth day of January,
eighteen hundred and sixty, leaving as his heirs
at law, Benjamin T. Biggs, Sewell C. Biggs,
Jane E. Brisbane, formerly Jane E. Biggs, now
the wife of William H. Brisbane, Joseph Biggs,
William P. Biggs and Mary Anna Biggs, all of
whom are over twenty-one years of age, except
Mary Anna Biggs, who is now about eighteen
years of age;

Preamble,

AND WHEREAS, the said John Biggs was seized at
the time of his death of valuable real estate, part
of which lies in New Castle county in the State
of Delaware, and part in Cecil county in the
State of Maryland; which said real estate taken
together is capable of advantageous division
amongst the parties in interest, but neither the
Delaware nor the Maryland lands, separate and
apart from the other, are capable of such divi-
sion, and consequently the laws of neither State
can afford adequate relief in the premises; AND
WHEREAS, because of the infancy of the said Mary
Anna Biggs, the aforesaid heirs at law, though
anxious so to do, can make no legal division of
said real estate, amongst themselves, unless ex-
press authority for that purpose be conferred
upon the said Mary Anna Biggs; therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
Maryland, That Mary Anna Biggs of the State of
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Division of
real estate,