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14 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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CHAPTER 12.
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Passed Dec.
23, 1861.
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AN ACT to authorize and empower Joseph A.
Harper and John Greenwood, of William, of
Kent county to convey certain land in Kent
county, to Richard Smyth of said county.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, By an act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at January session, eighteen
hundred and fifty-two, chapter two hundred
thirty-two, Nathaniel Wiley and John W. Bow-
man, of Kent county, were authorized and em-
powered to sell and convey a certain lot or part
of a tract of land, at or near Bell- Air in said
county, called "Saint Tantons ;" and whereas
the said Nathaniel Wiley and John W. Bow-
man, otherwise called John H. Bowman did sell
the said land to a certain Isaac Rogers, of Kent
county, who paid them for the same, but no
deed of conveyance was ever executed by them
to said Isaac Rogers; and whereas, the said Isaac
Rogers has since sold the said land to a certain
Richard Smyth of said county, who has paid the
purchase money for the same, but the said Na-
thaniel Wiley and John W. Bowman, alias
John H. Bowman, have departed this life, and
the said Isaac Rogers and Richard Smyth have
petitioned to this General Assembly for the ap-
pointment of two persons with authority to make
and execute a deed for the said land to the said
Richard Smyth; therefore,
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Conveyance
by deed autho-
rized.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Joseph A. Harper and John Green-
wood, of William, be and they are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to convey by deed, duly
executed and acknowledged, to the said Richard
Smyth, his heirs and assigns, the said part of a
tract or lot of land lying at or near Bell- Air in
Kent county, containing one acre, more or less,
which was conveyed by Stephen Denning to Pere-
grine Granger, Major Smith, Dobbs Joiner, Sam-
uel Coleman, James S. Primrose, Ezekiel Coleman
and Lemuel Coleman, of Kent county, trustees for
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bell-Air, on
their being satisfied that the purchase money
bas been paid ; that such conveyance shall not
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