A. W. BRADGORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 8.
AN ACT entitled, an act to enable Ruth & Co. of Chestertown, Maryland, to occupy a portion of the public laud on High street, in said town.	Passed Feb. 2, 1865.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem- bly of Maryland, That the Commissioners of Kent county, it in their judgment and opinion the pub- lic interest would not be injured thereby, are hereby directed and empowered to enter into con- tract with Thomas D. C. Ruth, Samuel W. Spen- cer and Jesse K. Hines, partners doing busines in canning and hermetically sealing peaches, oysters, &c., in the name of Ruth & Co., and their succes- sors; to occupy for the purpose of buildings and yards, twenty feet of that part of High street in said town, adjacent to and parallel with the lot owned by Thomas D. C. Ruth, from the public dock to the lower side of Water street, the said ground to be used by them in their business ope- rations, and whenever the same shall cease to be used as aforesaid by them or their successors shall revert to the public.	Authorized to enter into contract.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the same shall take effect from its passage.	In force.

CHAPTER 9.
AN ACT to incorporate the Union Orphan Asy- lum of Baltimore.	Passed Feb. 1, 1865.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem- bly of Maryland, That Mrs. Fanny Turnbull, Henrietta T. Norris, Julia E. Sewall, Ann Church, Annie M. Whitney, Maria Louisa Pratt, Elizabeth P. Oudesluys, Catharine Hooper, Mary E. Rob- bins, Elizabeth M. Turner, Laura M. Cook, Ann P. Dukehart, Ann M. Brown, Rose Boggs, Anna Boyd, Parthenia Getty, Margaret A. Townsend, Hannah E. Garritee, Harriet E. Hinds, Sophia 2	Incorporated.