JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, NOVEMBER.

1802,

of considerable real property therein, but from his not having been naturalized cannot receive con-
veyances for the same, and hath prayed that he may be enabled to receive conveyances for and hold
the said real property, and also that he may be enabled, to purchase and hold other real property in.
said state; therefore,

CHAP.
XXVI.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Mary land. That all contracts made or entered into
between the said William Thomas and any other person for the conveyance of any real property in
this state, shall have the same effect, and be of the same validity, as if the &aid William Thomas
had been, at the time of making the same, a citizen of the United States, and all conveyances made
or executed to the said William Thomas, in virtue of any such contract or agreement, shall be as
valid as if the said William Thomas was a citizen of the United States

Contracts to
have effect, &c,

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may be lawful for the said William Thomas, by deed
hereafter to be made, to take and hold lands within this, state, and sell and convey, or devise the same,
or transmit the same to his heirs, (being citizens of the United States,) in as full and ample manner
as if he was a citizen of the United States; provided, that unless the said William Thomas shall, on
or before the first day of June next, proceed according to law to make himself a citizen of the
United States, this act shall have no effect to confirm his title to the property above mentioned to
have been contracted for, nor shall he be entitled to the privilege above mentioned of purchasing
and holding real property in this state, but if the said William Thomas shall die before the time
when, by the laws of the United States, he might become a citizen thereof, nothing in this proviso
contained shall prevent him from transmuting or transferring his said property, by descent or devise,
to any person being a citizen of the United States.

CHAR XXVII.

W. Thomas
may-tak^ and
held lands, &s.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to regulate the inspection
of tobacco.

Passed 8th of
January,, 1803*

WHEREAS by an act of assembly, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and one,
entitled, An act to regulate the inspection of tobacco, and to which this is a supplement, no
person or persons are permitted to export, or carry out of this state by land or water, any tobacco,
unless in hogsheads, inspected, passed and marked, at some public warehouse, under the fines, pe-
nalties and forfeitures, in the said act mentioned: And whereas great and manifest injury and incon-
venience is suffered by the citizens of this state, in being prohibited from transporting and carrying
their tobacco into the county of Washington, in the district of Columbia, before the same is packed
in hogsheads, inspected, passed and marked as aforesaid, at some public warehouse; therefore,

Preamble*

1

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this
act, it shall and may be lawful for any inhabitant of this state to export, or carry by land or water,
any tobacco, either in hogsheads or otherwise, without the same having been first inspected, passed
atid marked, at any public warehouse, into the said county of Washington, in the said district of Co-
lumbia,, any thing in the said act to which this is a supplement to the contrary notwithstanding.

Any inhabitant'
may export t©-
bacco, &c.

III. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That from and after the passing of this act, no person or
persons shall be prosecuted, or in any manner molested, for any fine, penalty or forfeiture, hereto-
fore incurred for having carried any tobacco into the said county of Washington, in the district of
Columbia, contrary to the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement; and that any fine,
penalty or forfeiture, which any person may be liable for on account of having carried tobacco into
the county aforesaid, and for which a prosecution is now depending or commenced, so far as the in-
terest of the state extends, be and the same is hereby remitted and released; provided, that no-
thing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to affect the right which any person
may have acquired us informer of any such offence, but that all such penalties, unless such informer
shall otherwise direct, shall go on and be prosecuted in the same manner as if this act had nat
passed; provided always, that in case the prosecution shall be carried on, it shall be at the costs of
such informer, any thing in this, or the original act, to the contrary notwithstanding..

IV. AND, whereas it is represented that there is in some of the warehouses in this state tobacco
which has remained therein several years, without being called for by the owners thereof, and that

No person to
be prosecuted^
Sec.

,,«s*

the said tobacco from continuing, in the said warehouses may be damaged; therefore, BE IT ENACT-
ED, That the inspectors at the several warehouses shall, on or before the first day of April next,
and in the same month of every year thereafter, cause to be inserted in some one of the Baltimore
D news-papers

Inspectors t®
advertise, &gv