A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 21.

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AN ACT to make valid the last will and testa-
ment of Benjamin Quill, free negro, late of Cal-
vert county, deceased, and to authorize his
widow and devisee to hold and dispose of the
property devised.

Passed Feb.
9, 1864.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the last will and testament of
Benjamin Quill, a free negro, late of Calvert coun-
ty, deceased, bearing date the twenty-eighth day
of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and
duly admitted to probate in the Orphans' Court of
Calvert county, be and the same is hereby made
valid and effectual in law to all intents and pur-
poses, as fully as if the said Benjamin had been a
white person.

Last will and
testament
made valid.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That Rachel Quill,
free negro, the widow of the said deceased, and
the devisee under the said last will and testament,
be and she is hereby fully authorized and em-
powered to hold, use and possess .the property,
real and personal, thereby devised and bequeathed
to her, and to sell and dispose of the same in her
discretion during her life, with power to devise
and bequeath the same by last will and testament,
the said property, in case of her dying intestate,
to vest in her heirs at law.

Authority to
hold and pos-
sess property,
and dispose of
same by will.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of its passage.

In force.