1804.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LXV.

Section repeal-
ed.

III. AND, whereas the appointment of a clerk, other than the clerk of Baltimore county court,
to act as clerk of the said court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, would tend much to expe-
dite the business of both the said courts; therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That the third section of the
act to which this is a supplement be and the same is hereby repealed.

Justices,to
meet, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of the said court of oyer and terminer and gaol de-
livery for Baltimore county, or any two of them, shall meet at the court-house of the said county
on the first day of February next, or within ten days thereafter, and appoint a fit and proper person
to act as clerk of the said court, and to make all the entries, and transact all the business thereof,
in the same manner as the clerk of Baltimore county court is now by law authorised and required to
transact the same, and to do, receive and perform, all other duties, matters and things, required to
be done, received and performed, by the clerk of the court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery
for Baltimore county, or in any manner appertaining to his office; and the person so appointed shall,
before he enters upon the duties of his office, execute a bond to the state of Maryland, with two
sufficient sureties, to be approved of by the said court, in the manner, and agreeably to the form,
prescribed by the act passed at November session, one thousand eight hundred, entitled, An act pre-
scribing the form of the bond to be hereafter given by the clerks of the several counties of this
state; and the said clerk, when appointed, shall take and subscribe the several oaths and declarati-
on required by the constitution and laws of this state to be taken and subscribed by the clerks of the
several county courts, and shall be entitled to receive the same fees for the services by him perform-
ed, and be subject to the same penalties and forfeitures for non-performance or neglect of duty, as
the said clerks of the several county courts, and the said clerk shall also receive all sums of money
payable for any licences granted in virtue of this act, and account for the same according to law as
the clerk of Baltimore county court is now required to do.

And cause a
seal to be made,
&c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices aforesaid shall cause a seal to be made for the said
court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, which shall be kept by the clerk
of the said court, and by him affixed to all writs, exemplifications of records, and other certified co-
pies of proceedings of the said court, and shall be evidence of the authenticity of all such writs, re-
cords and proceedings, in the same manner as the seals of other courts of record.

Clerk to deli-
ver bills, &c.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of Baltimore county court shall and he is hereby re-
quired and directed to deliver to the clerk of the said court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery
for Baltimore county, immediately after his appointment and qualification as above directed, all bills,
presentments, writs, papers and documents whatsoever, relative to any proceedings depending in
the said court of oyer and terminer, upon which no final judgment shall have been entered.

Commence-
ment.

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall commence and take effect on the first day of Fe-
bruary next.

CHAP. LXVI.

Passed Janua-
ry, 12, 1805.

An ACT to release unto James Mosher the right of the state of
Maryland in and to a lot or parcel of ground therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to the general assembly of Maryland, by a petition from James
Mosher, of Baltimore county, that he purchased a lot, piece or parcel of ground, in the city
of Baltimore, of a certain Matthew Johnson, and obtained from him a regular conveyance in fee-
simple, by indenture of bargain and sale, bearing date the thirteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord eighteen hundred and four, which said lot, piece or parcel of ground, is contained with-
in the following metes and bounds, courses and distances, to wit: Beginning for the same on York-
street, at the north-east corner of a lot or piece of ground heretofore sold by Robert Walsh to Fre-
derick Anspach, and running thence east, binding on York-street, twenty-five feet, thence south,
parallel with Lloyd-street, to Salisbury street, thence running west, binding on Salisbury-street,
twenty-five feet, to the south-east corner of the said Frederick Anspach's lot, and thence running
binding on the said Anspach's lot to the place of beginning, which said lot, piece or parcel of ground,
had been sold arid conveyed to the said Matthew Johnson by Robert Walsh, of the city of Baltimore,
by indenture, bearing date the thirtieth clay of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and two, and that at the time the said lot or parcel of ground was sold and conveyed by the
said Robert Walsh to the said Matthew Johnson, he the said Johnson was not a citizen of the
United States, or of the state of Maryland, but that the said Matthew Johnson hath since that time,
to wit, on the twenty-second day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and three, been duly
naturalized and admitted a citizen of the United States, in Baltimore county court; and the said