A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 40.

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AN ACT for the relief of Maranda Porter and
Harriet Porter, of Carroll county.

Passed Jan.
28, 1862.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Maranda Porter and Harriet
Porter, of Carroll county, who were convicted of
an assault and battery upon the body of a certain
Mary Ann Cain, at the September term, eighteen
hundred and sixty, of the Circuit Court for said
county, be and they are hereby, each and both of
them, exempted and released from all costs and
charges arising or accruing from their conviction
in the aforesaid case of assault and battery.

Released from
sosts.

Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

In force.

CHAPTER 41.

AN ACT for the benefit of the Consistory of the
German Reformed Church of Jefferson, Frede-
rick County, Maryland.

Passed Jan.
27, 1862.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the deed executed on the thirty-
first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and
forty-one, by Peter Hoffman and Catherine Hoff-
man to Sebastian Ramsburg, John Feaster, Senior,
Henry Crum, John Stockman, Senior, Henry Stock-
man, Jacob Feaster, Junior, John Hemp, and John
Stockman, of John, Consistory of the German Re-
formed Church of Jefferson, Frederick county,
Maryland, and their successors, be and is hereby
declared valid and effectual to the same extent as
if said Consistory had been a body corporate at the
time of its execution ; and shall vest a good and
valid title to the real estate specified in said deed in
William F. Colliflower, John Feaster, William H.
Hershperger, Henry Cochran, Joseph Rhoderick,

Deed made
valid, &c.