EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

CHAP. XLVI.

1809.

Ah ACT to alter and change the place of holding the Elections in
the first election District in Kent County.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Simon Weeks, of the
first election district in Kent county, that the place of holding the election in said district is
inconvenient to the petitioner, owing to a private family occupying said property; and the prayer of
the petitioner appearing reasonable, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of the first election dis-
trict of Kent county be and they are hereby authorised and directed, to hold, in future, the election
in said district at such place as may appear to them most convenient.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the judges aforesaid shall have made choice of a fit and
proper place for holding said election, agreeably to the directions of this act, and shall have return-
ed a certificate thereof, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of the county court, to be record-
ed, the same shall be the place of holding the elections for the first district of Kent county, any law
to the contrary notwithstanding.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk shall record said certificate among the records of Kent
county.

CHAP. XLVII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to confirm the Title in Richard Flintham to a part of a
Tract of Land lying in Caecil County.

WHEREAS Richard Flintham hath, by his petition to this general assembly, represented, that
he purchased a part of a tract of land at sheriff's sale, lying and being in Caecil county, sold
to satisfy a debt due from Charles Heath to a certain Robert Milligan, and that the sheriff of said
county died a short time after the sale thereof, and before the said Flintham could get from him a
deed of conveyance, and hath prayed this general assembly to give him relief in the premises;
therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the title to the part of a tract of
land sold as aforesaid, and contained within the metes and bounds, courses and distances, following,
to wit: Beginning at a small stone in the state line, and running north, seventy-two degrees west,
twenty-five perches and an half to a marked stone, then north, thirty-three and three quarter degrees
east, thirty-nine perches and three tenths to a stake, then south, three and a quarter degrees east,
thirty-four perches and six tenths to the place of beginning, containing two acres and ninety-five
perches, more or less, shall be as fully invested in the said Richard Flintham as if the sheriff of
Caecil county had by deed of bargain and sale conveyed unto him the same.

III. PROVIDED NEVERTHELESS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act, nor any clause thereof,
shall extend, or be construed to extend, to give to the said Richard Flintham any other or better
title than the said Charles Heath had, of, in and to the same, and that all the right, title, interest
and claim, of the said Heath to the before described part of a tract of land, shall be transferred anil
confirmed, and is hereby fully transferred and confirmed, unto the said Richard Flintham, his heirs
and assigns, for ever.

CHAP. XLVIII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT for the relief of the German or High Dutch Reformed
Christian Church in Frederick-Town, and other Persons therein
named.

WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that the congregation of the German or High-
Dutch Reformed Christian Church in Frederick-town, in their corporate capacity, and Henry
Bantz, Philip Rohr, Jacob Rohr, John Fouble and Christian Rohr, in their own right, are, and have
long been, in the peaceable possession of lot number eighty, situated in the said town, held and de-
rived by virtue and under a deed of conveyance from a certain Henry Bruner to Rudolph Rohr, of
Frederick county, bearing date the twentieth of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and seventy-two, duly executed, and recorded in Liber P. folios 333 and 334, one of the
land records of said county, and by virtue of other deed or deeds from the said Henry Bruner, but

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.