JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1802.

C H A P LXXVII.

An ACT respecting land certificates.

WHEREAS it is represented to the general assembly, that there are various instances where
orders have been parsed for correcting certificates, and where certificates found erroneous
have not been returned within the time limitted by law, and it appearing just that the proprietors of
such certificates should have the same benefit of the warrant and caution money paid on such certi-
ficates as on vacated certificates; therefore.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in cases where an order has passed,
or may pass, for the correction of a land certificate by the judge of the land-office, or where a certi-
ficate is found erroneous by the examiner-general, and the corrected certificate is not, or may hot be
returned within the time limitted by law, it shall be lawful for the register of the land-office to issue
a land warrant to the amount of the caution money, and the money paid for improvements, if any,
in the same manner as if such certificates had been vacated.

In certain
cases, register
to issue a war-
rant, &c.

CHAP. LXXVIII.

An ACT for the relief of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.

WHEREAS a patent issued to Charles Garroll, of Garrollton, on the thirty-first day of May,
in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five, for a tract of land called Rochester, in Bal-
timore county, which patent was signed by the then governor, William Paca, and chancellor John
Rogers, and the great seal thereto affixed, but no record of either certificate or patent was ever
made, and the original certificate is lost or mislaid; therefore.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803.
Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the register of the land-office for
the western shore be and he is hereby authorised and dirtied to receive into said office the duplicate
certificate made out by James Calder, formerly surveyor of Baltimore county, of the said tracr of
land called Rochester, bearing date the twentieth day of November, seventeen hundred and seven-
ty-three, containing, according to said certificate, four thousand seven hundred six and one half
acres of land; provided, that before the same be received, it shall pass the examination of the ex-
aminer-general in the same manner as an original certificate; and provided also, that in case the
same shall be found erroneous, it shall be amended by the said James Calcler, in the same manner as
erroneous certificates are by law amended by the surveyor of the county.

Register to re-
ceive a dupli-
cate certificate,
&c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said certificate shall be received by the register afore-
said, and before he shall record the patent issued on the original certificate aforesaid, bearing date
the thirty first day of May, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, and in case of a variance between
said patent and the duplicate certificate, it shall be lawful for the said register to make the patent
correspond with the certificate, and that the said certificate, patent and record, made out in pur-
suance of this act, shall have the same effect and validity as a patent issued according to the regular
course of the said office; provided, that nothing herein contained shall affect, or be construed to
affect, any right or title which any other person or persons may have acquired to said land, or any
part thereof, prior to the passage of this act, but that all such rights shall be of the same effect and
have the same avail, as if this law had never passed, any thing herein contained to the contrary not-
withstanding.

CHAP. LXXIX.

And make the
patent cor-
respond, &c

An ACT, entitled, A further supplement to an act, entitled, An
act to remove the market-house at the Head of Elk, and es-
tablish the same, and for the advancement and regulation of said
town.

Passed 8th of
January, 1803

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That if any swine, goats or geese, shall be
found going at large in said town, or within the limits aforesaid, or shall break Into and be found
within any enclosure, not belonging to the owner of such swine, goats or geese, within one mile of
said market-house, it shall and may be lawful for any person to take up and impound said swine,
goats or geese, and the person impounding them shall give notice to the owner, if known, and if
not known, the person so impounding shall give notice thereof, within six hours, to the clerk of the
market, who shall view and examine said swine, goats or geese, and advertise the same at the mar-
ket-house, and at some two public houses in the said town, describing their number, colour and
marks,

Swine, &c.
may he taken
up, &c.