1836.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 78.

the residue of the purchase money and interest: and
whereas, it is further represented, that several of said
purchasers, since the death of the said John Murray,
have paid to his said administratrix the residue of said
purchase money and interest, and others of said pur-

and whereas, in consequence of the infancy of several
of the children of said John Murray, who died intestate,
and some of which children are yet of tender age, the
said purchasers are unable to procure conveyances, in
execution of said bonds of conveyance; and are without
the means of relief except by the aid of a court of equity,
and it being suggested that several of said pieces or
parcels of land are of very small value, and that the
attendant expense, in case of applications by said per-
sons, respectively, to a court of equity, would equal,
if not exceed, the entire value of such respective pieces
or parcels of land, and it being reasonable that some
relief should be accorded, from the peculiar circum-
stances of the case: Therefore,

Authority to

deed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the said Sarah Murray, upon pay-
ment to her, as administratrix as aforesaid, of the re-
sidue of the purchase money, with the interest thereon
accrued, shall be, and she is hereby authorised and em-
powered to execute and deliver to the respective pur-
chasers thereof, deeds of conveyance, to be executed
and acknowledged according to law, for any and all
such pieces or parcels of land as were sold by the said
John Murray in his lifetime, and for which be passed
to the respective purchasers thereof his bonds of con-
veyance in pursuance of such sales; provided, that such

Record required

recorded; and provided further, that the bond of con-
veyance for such several pieces or parcels of land shall
be recorded at the same time, and together with the

Proviso as to
fraud

particular deed of conveyance for the same; and provi-
ded further, that if and in case, the said infant chil-
dren, or any one or more of them, at any time within
the period of one year, next after the attainment of the
age of twenty-one years, shall make it appear that the;
bond of conveyance or bonds of conveyance for anyone
or more of said pieces or parcels of land, was or were
obtained by fraud; or that any one or more of sard deeds