A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

things recited and declared that the aforesaid
lands had been purchased by the said declarants
for account of and with moneys supplied by certain
persons in said declaration generally designated,
and that the interests of said persons had been di-
vided into shares, and that the said declarants
had issued to the said persons or shareholders cer-
tificates expressive of their respective proportional
interests in the said lands, which said certificates
purported on their face to be transferable by as-
signment on the back thereof, and that at the end
of a term of ten years therein specified, the dis-
position to be made of said lands, whether to con-
tinue the use thereof to the Maryland State Agri-
cultural Society or otherwise to dispose of them,
shall be determined by the vote of a majority of
the aforesaid shares; and whereas, recently and
after the expiration of the aforesaid term of ten'
years, and by direction and with the consent and
approval of the then holders of the then major part
in number of the said shares as it is said, the said
Chauncy Brooks, Zenos Barnum, Alexander Mur-
dock, William Devries and Johns Hopkins, sold
the said lands in parcels to divers persons at pub-
lic sale, and for the reasonable values of the said
parcels, but the said purchasers have refused to
comply with their contracts of purchase aforesaid,
on the ground that the said trustees are unable to
convey to the purchasers of said parcels, titles
therein, which will protect the said purchasers
as against the original holders of said shares or
their legal representatives; for the purpose of re-
moving all doubt in regard to the powers of the
said trustees to make sale of said lands, and to
convey a good title to the purchasers thereof here-
under.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful to
and for the Circuit Court for Baltimore city, or
the Superior Court of Baltimore city, on any bill
filed by the said Chauncy Brooks, Zenos Barnum,
Alexander Murdock, William Devries and Johns
Hopkins, or the survivors or survivor of them,
against ten or more of the then holders of certifi-
cates issued by them as is hereinbefore recited, and
upon the consent of said defendants, and upon its

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Decree for
sale of lands
asked.