EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER,

1809.

unto, and which slave or slaves, or the mothers of which slave or slaves, shall have been resident
of the district of Columbia three whole years next preceding such removal or importation, and the
same to retain as slaves.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to enable the said
Sophia Bland to sell or dispose of any slave or slaves imported by virtue of this act, or their increase,
until the said slave or slaves shall have resided within this state three whole years next preceding
such sale, except in cases of disposition by last will and testament, and dispositions by law for bond
fide debts, or consequent upon intestacy.

CHAP. CLXXXVII.

CHAP.
CLXXXVI.

An ACT for the relief of Theodorick Bland.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Theodorick Bland be and he is hereby
authorised and empowered to remove, import and bring into this state, at any time within one
year after the passage of this act, such slave or slaves as he may now have a bond fide absolute right
unto, and to which he had a bona fide title for the period of three years before the passage of this act,
and which slave or slaves, or the mothers of which slave or slaves, shall have been resident of the
district of Columbia three whole years next preceding such removal or importation, and the same to
retain as slaves.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to enable the said
Theodorick Bland to sell or dispose of any slave or slaves imported by virtue of this act, or their in-
crease, until the said slave or slaves shall have resided within this state three whole years next pre-
ceding such sale, except in cases of disposition by last will and testament, and dispositions by law
for bonafide debts, or consequent upon intestacy.

CHAP. CLXXXVIII.

Passed 7th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to authorise the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church
on Fell's Point to sell Lot Number Five Hundred and Ninety, si-
tuate on Fell's Point.

WHEREAS Job Smith, Isaac Sutton, William Drumond, Richard Jones, Edward Hall, John
Hawkins and Frederick Schaeffer, trustees of the Methodist Protestant Episcopal Church on
Fell's Point, by their petition, have set forth, that a certain Thomas Woodward did heretofore,
on the thirtieth day of September, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, convey to a certain Jesse
Hollingsworth, and others, in trust, for said church, a lot or parcel of ground, situate, lying and
being, on Fell's Point, distinguished on the plat thereof by the Number Five Hundred and Ninety,
and the said trustees, for divers good reasons, have prayed that they may be authorised to sell said
lot; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Job Smith, Isaac Sutton,
William Drumond, Richard Jones, Edward Hall, John Hawkins and Frederick Schaeffer, or a ma-
jority of them, trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church on Fell's Point, be and they are hereby
authorised to sell and dispose of all the right which said church may have in said lot Number Five
Hundred and Ninety, at public sale, on such terms as they may deem best, and appropriate the pro-
ceeds arising from such sale to the building or buying a preacher's house, and improving the premises
of the New Methodist Meeting-House on Fell's Point.

CHAP. CLXXXIX.

Passed 7th of
Jan. 1810.

AN ACT to lay out and open a Road from the Mouth of Bernard
Gilpin's Lane, to intersect the old Road leading to Montgomery
Court-House at or near Anne Slater's Plantation.

WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Montgomery county have, by petition to this general assem-
bly, prayed that a road may be opened from the mouth of Bernard Gilpin's lane, to intersect
the old road leading to Montgomery court house at or near Anne Slater's plantation; and the same
appearing reasonable, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Samuel Thomas, Bernard Gilpin,
William Thomas, John Nealde and Washington Owens, or any three of them, be and they are here-

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Passed 7th of
Jan. 1810.