JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

CHAPTER 183.

CHAP. 184.

An act supplementary to the act entitled, "An ad relating to
the Jail of Baltimore city and county? passed at Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter fijty-
eight.

Passed Mar. 1825

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That after any person shall conformably to the provisions
of the twentieth section of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, have been received and imprisoned in the Jail of
Baltimore city and county, the sum of one dollar and forty
cents for maintenance of such prisoner shall be paid week-
ly in advance for and during the whole time of such im-
prisonment; and on any default of such payment being
made at the end of the first week for which the payment
required by said section of said act shall have been made,

$ 1.40 allowed for
maintenance of

the prisoners

or at the end of every week thereafter in advance, the war-
den of said Jail shall be and he is hereby authorised and
directed to discharge and release such person from said
Jail and said imprisonment.

May discharge if

not paid in ad-

vance

CHAPTER 184.

An act for the benefit of William G. Read and Sophia
Catharine Read.

Passed Mar. 11, 1833

Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all deeds or conveyances heretofore or
hereafter made, by William George Read of Baltimore, and
Sophia Catharine his wife, of or concerning any lands,
tenements or hereditaments, whereof they are seized in
right of the said Sophia Catharine, the usual covenants
for renewal of leases, warrantry, and quiet enjoyment, and
other covenants real, to run with the land, shall be good
and availing to all purposes in the law whatsoever, as
though the said Sophia Catharine had been sole and dis-

Deeds &c made

valid

covert, at the tune of executing the same; Provided, that
all such deeds or conveyances be duly executed and ac-
knowledged, by the said Sophia Catharine, according to
the laws of Maryland, in force at the time, regulating con-
veyances of the estates of femes covert.

Proviso

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That any written agreement
for the conveyance of any lands, tenements or heredita-

Written agree-

ments made valid