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CHAP. 7.
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ware, deceased, Susan II. Cummins, George W. Cummins,
John 11. Cummins, Alphonsa Black, William Cummins,
Mary Cummins, Daniel Cummins, James D. Cummins, Ami
W. Cummins, Martha Cummins, Robert W. Cummins, and
Alexander G. Cummins, children of the said John Cummins,
deceased, and John G. Black, who intermarried with, and
is the husband of the said Alphonsa, by their petition to
this General Assembly, represent, that the said John Cum-
mins diet! in the monili of July, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, intestate, being
in his life time, and at the time of his death, seized in his
demesne as of fee, of divers lands, tenements and heradila-
ments, situated partly in Queen Anne's county, in the State
of Maryland, and partly in Kent county, State of Delaware,
aforesaid—that under the law of descents, in this State and
the State of Delaware, the said lands, tenaments and here-
ditaments have descended to, and upon the said twelve
children of said deceased, as equal coparceners, subject to
the right of dower therein, of the said Susan W. Cummins,
widow of said deceased; that seven of the said children are
infanta, under twenty one years of age,and several of them of
very tender years: And it being further represented by said
petitioners, that if all the said lands and premises can be
brought into one assignment of dower and partition, as if the
same were situated wholly in this State or in the slate of Dela-
ware, the two third parts thereof would be capable of being
divided among the said children of said deceased, into
twelve equal pails, regarding quality as weli as quantity,
eacli of which would constitute a competent beginning in
life, to such of the said children as are grown, and a com-
petent support to those of them who are infants; but that if
dower should be assigned to said widow, in both States,
and the residue remaining in each after such assignment,
be divided into twelve equal parts among the said children,
the portions of the said children respectively, would be
greatly diminished in value, especially to such of them as
contemplate settling upon and occupying the same, from the
fact that the share of each child must necessarily consist of
»eveial and distant allottments, and in different States—and
it appealing to this General Assembly, that the existing
laws of this State and the State of Delaware, respectively,
furnish lo the petitioners no authority for assigning the said
dower, and making partition of the said residue among the
said twelve children, in any other way than by assigning
the dower and dividing the residue into the whole number
of parts in each of the said States, that from the tender age
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