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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 112.

Passed Mar.
2, 1864.

AN ACT to make valid the proceedings in a cause
number twenty-three hundred and ninety-one,
on the equity docket of the Circuit Court for
Frederick county, wherein Ezra Houck, guar-
dian of Franklin Myers, is complainant, and
Franklin Myers and others are defendants; and
also to make valid the deed executed by Ezra
Houck, Trustee in said cause, to Edward Schley.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General As-
sembly of Maryland, in the petition of Ezra Houck,
guardian of Franklin Myers and of Eve Margaret
Schley, that the proceedings in number twenty-
three hundred and ninety-one, Equity Circuit Court
for Frederick county, in a canse in said court
wherein Ezra Houck, guardian of Franklin Myers
is complainant, and Franklin Myers and others
are defendants, are defective by reason that the
said infant defendant, Franklin Myers, though
summoned, did not appear and answer by guar-
dian; and whereas, it also appears the lands of
said infant were sold under a decree of said court,
and the whole purchase money paid, and the in-
fant has gained the benefit thereof, and title has
been vested under the deed executed by the Trus-
tee under said decree, which title is defective; for
remedy whereof,

Proceedings
made valid and
binding.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the proceedings and decree
passed by the Circuit Court for Frederick county as
a Court of Equity in number twenty-three hundred
and ninety-one equity, in the cause wherein Ezra
Houck, guardian of Franklin Myers, is complain-
ant, and Franklin Myers and others are defendants,
be and the same are hereby made valid and bind-
ing as if the said infant Franklin Myers had ap-
peared in said cause and answered by guardian ad
litem, and that the deed executed by Ezra Houck,
Trustee in said cause, to said Edward Schley, be
and the same is hereby made as valid as if said
proceedings had been conducted according to the