THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1836.

with said Walters by the heirs of Archer Hays, and ,
for that purpose shall by an order on the said petition
appoint a person to make a deed to the said Waiters, J
competent to pass all the rights, title anil estate of the

CHAP. 137. .
Deed

said Ellen Davis; provided however, that before the-
said order shall pass, the court shall be satisfied that
the price of twenty dollars per acre, was a fair and
full price, and that the said sale would be advanta-

Proviso

geous to the infant aforesaid; and provided further, that
the said Daniel Walters shall file with his said petition,
the assent in writing of the guardian of the said El-
len Davis, to the sale aforesaid, and expression of his
belief, that the said sale would be advantageous to the
said infant.

CHAPTER 137.

Further proviso

An act for the relief of Kendall S. Cropper, of the city
of Philadelphia.

Passed Mar. 7,
1837.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General
Assembly that a certain deed of bargain and sale, from
Elisha Chauncy to Rendail S. Cropper, of the city of
Philadelphia, dated on the thirtieth day of Marcl) in
the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two,
and purporting to convey one undivided moiety or equal
half part of a certain tract of land in Cecil county, was
not properly acknowledged and has never been record-
ed.and that the said Elisha Chauncy is now dead with-
out any heirs at law known to the said Kendall S.
Cropper:— Therefore,

Preamble

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said deed may be recorded and shall be as
valid as if it had been properly acknowledged and re-
corded within the time alowed by law, and the clerk
of Cecil county is hereby directed to receive and re-
cord the same, but nothing in this act shall be constru-
ed to affect any judgment, creditor, purchaser or mort-
gagee who shall have obtained any such lien or interest
since the execution of the said deed.

Deed confirmed