JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1834.

court as such, and only became entitled to the benefit of
said purchase, by a subsequent contract, made between him,
in his life time, and he original purchasers of said estate,
in compliance wild the provisions of which said subsequent
contract, the said conveyance was made, but without any
order of substitution, previously made by the said court, of
the said Henry Motter, as the purchaser of said estate, in
lieu of the persons who had been reported as the purchasers
thereof, and it being suggested that several conveyances
were made to several persons by the said Motter, in his life
time, of parts of said real estate, aud that said executors are
charged with the performance of certain duties relative to
said estate, by a codicil to his testament and last will, and
the said memorialists hiving prayed that said conveyance
may be confirmed ana made valid, and the facts alleged by
them appearing to be true, Therefore

CHAP 292

Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, that the deed of conveyance made by Bene S Pig-
man, acting as Trustee, under a decree of the Chancery
Court of Maryland, to Henry Motter, in his life time, bearing
date the twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty four, and recorded in
Liber I. S number twenty, folios two hundred and twenty
six, &c, one of the land records of Frederick county, afore-
said, shall be, and the same is hereby made valid and con-
firmed, and that the same deed shall be taken and avail to
have the same torce, effect, and operation in law, and in all
couits of justice, as if the said Henry Motter, in his life
time, had been duly substituted as the purchaser of said
real estate, by order of the said court, made previous to the
execution and delivery of such conveyance and as if such
conveyance had been afterwards made, in pursuance of such
previous order, and in express compliance with a decree of
the said court to authorise the same

Sec 2 And be it enacted, that the recitals in said deed
of conveyance shall not, nor shall any of them be held,
deemed, or taken to avail or operate by way of estoppel, or
by reason of any repugnancy or otherwise, in contravention
of the provisions of the foregoing section of this act
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