1809.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
XXI.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustee appointed by virtue of this act shall be accountable
to the guardian of the said children, under the direction of the orphans court aforesaid, and pay over
the money arising from the sale of the land aforesaid in such manner as the said court shall or may
direct.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any conveyance or deed made by the trustee aforesaid, pursuant
to the directions of the orphans court aforesaid, shall and is hereby declared to be valid and effectual
to pass and convey all the right, title and interest, of the said William, Mary, Levin, Elizabeth
and Britania Murphey, in and to the land aforesaid, to the purchaser or purchasers of the same.

CHAP. XXII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to fix the mode of electing Senators to represent this State
in the Senate of the United States.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the senator or senators hereafter cho-
sen to represent this state in the senate of the United States shall be elected by the joint ballot
of both branches of the legislature, and that the person or persons qualified as the constitution of
the United States directs, having a majority of the votes of all the attending members in both
branches of the legislature, shall be declared as duly elected.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That one of the senators shall be always an inhabitant of the eastern
and the other of the western shore.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commission of such senator shall be granted and executed in
the form and manner heretofore usually practised.

CHAP. XXIII.

Passed 27th of
Nov. 1809.

An ACT for the relief and benefit of Clement Brooke, of Baltimore
County.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of Baltimore county court
be and they are hereby authorised and directed to extend to Clement Brooke, of Baltimore
county, the benefit and relief of the act of assembly, passed at November session, eighteen hundred
and five, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the supplementary acts there-
to, without compelling the said Clement Brooke to produce any evidence of his having resided with-
in the state of Maryland for the two years last previous to his application for the benefit thereof, in
the same manner as if he had actually resided within this state, agreeably to the provisions of the
said act, and the supplementary acts thereto.

CHAP. XXIV.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT annulling the Marriage of Amelia Peters, of Queen-Anne's
County.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the marriage of Amelia Peters, and
John Peters her husband, heretofore solemnized, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, ab-
solutely, and to all purposes, null and void; and the said Amelia Peters, and John Peters her hus-
band, are hereby declared to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii; provided always, that nothing in this
act contained be construed to illegitimate the children of the said Amelia Peters and John Peters,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. XXV.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT confirming the right of John Miers and Herbert Wier to a
Tract of Land called Contest.

WHEREAS John Miers and Herbert Wier have set forth in their petition to this general assem-
bly, that there is a defect in their title to a tract of land lying in Allegany county, called
Contest, notwithstanding they have obtained a patent for the same; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the patent granted to John Miers
and Herbert Wier for a certain tract of land, lying and being in Allegany county, called Contest,
containing one hundred and twenty-five acres, bearing date on the twelfth day of November, eighteen