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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly
by the petition of Daniel Orrell, of Caroline county, that
a certain Joseph Boon, late of said county, departed this
life early in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, leaving
a widow and four children, two sons named Joseph and
James respectively, and two daughters, the one named Re-
becca, who intermarried with the said Daniel Orrell, and
the other Susan or Susanna Boon, who is under the age
of twenty-one years, and now under the guardianship of
her mother; that the said Joseph Boon owned and possess-
ed at the time of his death, about nine hundred acres of
land, all in one body, lying and being in the county afore-
said, which in his last wiU and testament, he devised to
his sons above named, in fee simple, pointing out in his
said will a division between them; that since the death of
Joseph Boon the father, his two sons, Joseph and James, .
to whom his said lands were devised, have both died; in
consequence of which, the lands which were devised to
them, have descended to the two sisters, viz: the Petition-
er's wife and Susan or Susannah Boon, and that it is the
desire of the said petitioner to effect a division of the said
land between them. And whereas, doubts have arisen,
whether a division of the same can be effected by virtue
of one commission only, to be issued out of Caroline
county court, under the law to direct descents, or whether
there should be two commissions to effect the same, in
which latter case much unnecessary expense must be in-
curred; — Therefore,
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Commissioners to
value and partitions
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Section 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the judges of
Caroline County Court, and they are hereby directed and
required to issue a commission to five judicious persons to
be therein named, who shall be vested with full power and
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