EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, NOVEMBER.

1809.

time to time think proper, as well for the payment of any debts or expenses heretofore contracted or
incurred, as for the raising such sums as may be hereafter necessary for the finishing and completing
the said new court-house, the first instalment to be assessed by the said court at their first session
after the passage of this act for the purpose of laying the county levy, and to be collected by the
collector of said county.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said sum or sums shall be collected and paid over agreeably
to the provisions of the act, entitled, An act to provide for the erection of a new court-house for
Baltimore county, passed at November session, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, and
the commissioners named and appointed by the said act, on receipt of the said sum or sums of money,
shall apply the same to the erection and completion of the said new court-house, and account there-
for pursuant to the provisions of the above recited act.

CHAP. CXCVII.

C H A P.
CXCVI.

An ACT for the benefit of Richard Green, of Montgomery County.

WHEREAS Richard Green, of Montgomery county, by his petition hath set forth, and satis-
factorily proved, that a certain William Green, late of said county, but now of the state of
Ohio, did, on the tenth day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, seal, deliver and
acknowledge, a deed to the said Richard Green, which has been duly recorded in the clerk's office of
said county, by which said deed the said William conveyed to the said Richard all the right and title
of the said William to the tracts of land called The Resurvey on Harrison's Delight and Friend's
Goodwill, to which said deed the mark of said William was made opposite to the seal, but by mis-
take the name William King was written instead of William Green; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said deed shall have the same
force, operation and effect, in law and equity, which it would have had if the name William Green
had been written opposite to his seal to the said deed instead of William King as aforesaid.

CHAP. CXCVIII.

Passed 7th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to alter and abolish all such parts of the Constitution and Form
of Government as require a property qualification in Persons to be
appointed or holding offices of profit or trust in this State, - and in
Persons elected Members of the Legislature or Electors of the Senate.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all such parts of the constitution and
form of government as require a property qualification in persons to be appointed or holding
offices of profit or trust in this state, and in persons elected members of the legislature or electors
of the senate, shall be and the same are hereby repealed and abolished.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if this act shall be confirmed by the general assembly, after the
next election of delegates, in the first session after such new election, as the constitution and form
of government directs, that in such case this act, ami the alterations and amendment of the consti-
tution and form of government therein contained, shall be taken and considered, and shall constitute
and be valid, as a part of the said constitution and form of government, any thing in the said consti-
tution and form of government contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. CXCIX.

Passed 8th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT for the relief of Anthony Thompson.

WHEREAS Thomas Lockerman filed a bill in Dorchester county court, as a court of equity,
against said Thompson, who also in the same court filed a cross bill against the said Locker-
man, from which decisions the said Thompson prayed appeals in both cases, which were allowed,
but the clerk by accident omitted to enter the appeal in the case of the cross bill by Thompson, and
the judges of the said court having since ordered the record to be transmitted to the chancery court
under that appeal, and doubts are entertained whether the said cause can be acted on by the chan-
cellor, for as much as by the transcript it appears the appeal Was prayed after the time allowed by
law had expired; for remedy whereof,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the chancery court shall and it is
hereby authorised to act on and determine the case of the appeal aforesaid, as fully and amply, and
with the same power and authority, as it would have been authorised to act on and determine the
same in case the appeal on the transcript had appeared to have been prayed for and allowed at the

Passed 8th of
Jan. 1810.