1803.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OP MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LXXXV.

To receive mo-
nies, &c.

V. AND BE IT EXACTED. That the commissioners aforesaid shall be authorised to call for and re-
ceive from the collector, all monies levied and assesssd for their use in pursuance of this act, as soon
as the same shall become payable by law; and in case the said collector shall refuse or neglect ta*
pay the same, the said commissioners shall have the same remedy for recovering the same as is pre-
scribed by the act, entitled. An act for the speedy recovery of monies levied or received by she-
riffs and collectors, passed November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven.

Their allow-
ance.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each cf the commissioners aforesaid shall receive, as a compen-
sation for his services, the sum of one dollar for every day he shall attend, or be engaged in conse-
quence of the provisions of this act, and the same shall be assessed in the county levy, and collect-
ed and paid as other county charges.

CHAP. LXXXVI.

Passed 7th of

January, 1804.

An ACT for the support of Elizabeth Oden and Elizabeth Randai,.
of Montgomery county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS Elizabeth Oden and Elizabeth Randai, by their petitions to this general assembly
have set forth, that they are very poor, and by their bodily infirmities are unable to support
themselves by labour, and prayed that an act may pass for their support out of the poor-house; and
the prayer of the petitioners appearing reasonable, therefore,

Trustees to
support E.
Oden, &c.

11. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
trustees of the poor of the said county, if they shall be of opinion that the .peculiar circumstances
of the said Elisabeth Oden and Elisabeth Randai are such as to render their situation in the poor-
house particularly unsuitable for them, to support them as out-pensioners in addition to the number
now allowed by the act, entitled, An act to enlarge the powers of the trustees of the poor in the
several counties therein designated, and to allow the said Elizabeth Oden and Elizabeth Randal an
annual pension, not exceeding thirty dollars each, to be paid at such time or times as the said trus-
tees shall direct, the amount of which said pensions, shall be levied in the same manner as the other
cxpences of the poor-house in said county are.

CHAP. LXXXVII.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804.
Preamble.

An ACT to aid the defed of the deed therein mentioned;

WHEREAS Henry Lee, Matilda Lee, Ludwell Lee and Flora Lee, did in the month of Sen-
V V tember, seventeen hundred and eighty nine, execute a deed to John Wise, for a tract of land
lying in Frederick county called Hill In the Middle, which was acknowledged before Culthburt Bul-
lett and Richard Parker, two judges of the general court of Virginia, which is not according to the
provisions of the laws of this state: And whereas on an application to the chancellor to have the
said deed recorded, it was determined that it was not a case which came within the powers of the
court of chancery; and the chancellor having recomm.en.ded this as a proper case for legislative aid,
therefore,

Chancellor, on
application, to
examine, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the chancellor shall have power,
on application of the party or parties ctaiming title to the lands in the above recited deed, to ex-
amine into the circumstances relating to the same, and if it shall appear to him equitable and just,
then it shall and may be lawful for the chancellor to order and decree the said deed to be recorded,
either in the general court for the western shore, or in the county court of Frederick county,
which, when recorded, shall have the same effect as if the same had been duly acknowledged and re-
corded agreeably to the laws of this state; provided, that nothing in this act shall operate to the
prejudice of any purchaser from the grantors in the said deed, without notice of the same,

CHAP. LXXXVIII.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804.

An ACT for the relief of Richard Morgan, of Montgomery coun-
ty, and Christopher Woolford, of Washington county.

Provisions ex-
tended, &c.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all and singular the provisions and
regulations contained in an act, entitled, An act for the reliet oF insolvent debtors, passed at
March session, seventeen hundred and seventy-four, be and the same are hereby as fully and amply
extended to Richard Morgan, of Montgomery county, and Christopher Woolford of Washington
county, respectively, as if they had been, committed to, and confined in, the gaols of their respec-
tive counties for debt.