A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

front of his said land ; such improvements, and
other accretions as above rjrovided for, shall pass
to the successive owners of 'the land to which they
are attached, as incident to their respective estates.
But no jsuch improvement shall be so made as to
interfere with the navigation of the stream of
water into which the said improvement is made.

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"Thirty-nine." No patent hereafter issued out
of the Land Office shall impair or affect the rights
of riparian proprietors, as explained and declared
in the two sections next preceding this section,
and no patent shall hereafter issue for laud covered
by navigable waters.

Patents not
to affect rights
of riparian
proprietors.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of the passage thereof.

In force.

CHAPTER 130.

AN ACT to authorize the Court of Appeals to
hear at the December term, of the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, certain appeals in cases
of petitions for writs of mandamus, for and in
relation to the widening and opening of Holli-
day street in Baltimore city.

Passed Feb.
11, 1862.

WHEREAS, in three cases in the Superior Court of
Baltimore city, to wit: The State of Maryland
at relation of the Elders, Deacons and Trustees
of the German Reformed Congregation of Bal-
timore town, against. John J. Graves, City Col-
lector, and Nathan T. Dushane and others ; and
the State, at relation of Catharine M. McClellan
against the same Defendants ; and the State, at
relation of William W. McClellan against the
same Defendants, for writs of mandamus, for
and in relation to the widening and opening of
Holliday street in Baltimore city, the said court
has rendered judgments upon the several peti-
tions for said writs, dismissing said petitions ;
from which judgments appeals have been prayed
and granted to the Court of Appeals : and

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Preamble.