1809.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF M A R. Y L A N D.

C H A P,
LXVI.

and has not hud a fixed residence in the state for the two last years, and is thereby precluded from
taking the benefit of the law for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and prays a special act in his
favour; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges or any judge of Queen-
Anne's county court, be and they, or any one of them, are hereby authorised and directed, to extend
to John Campbell 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 supplements
thereto, without compelling him to produce any evidence of his having resided within the state of
Maryland for the two years last previous to his application for the benefit thereof, in the same man-
ner as if he had actually resided within this state agreeably to the provisions of the said act, and the
supplements thereto.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges or judge be, and they are hereby authorised and
empowered, without the said John Campbell obtaining the assent of two thirds in amount of his cre-
ditors, to entend and afford to the said John Campbell all the benefits, advantages and provisions, of
. the aforesaid act, and the supplements thereto, in the same manner, and upon the same terms and con-
ditions, as if he had obtained the assent of two thirds of his creditors to his release under the same.

CHAP. LXVII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT annulling the Marriage of Ephraim Furniss, and Polly his
Wife, of Somerset County.

WHEREAS Ephraim Furniss, of Somerset county, by his petition to this general assembly,
hath set forth, and satisfactorily proved, that his wife Polly was delivered of a mulatto child
in the month of September last; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the marriage of Ephraim Furniss,
of Somerset county, and Polly his wife, heretofore solemnized, be, and the same is hereby declared
to be, absolutely, and to all intents and purposes, null and void; and the said Ephraim Furniss, and
Polly his wife, are hereby declared to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii; provided always, that nothing
in this act contained shall be construed to illegitimate the children of the said Ephraim Furniss, and
Polly his wife, born prior to the birth of the mulatto child aforesaid.

CHAP. LXVIII.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT providing for the payment of the Costs which accrued upon
the Trial of Thomas Burk in Washington County, at March Term,
one thousand eight hundred and nine.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the clerk of Washington county shall
and he is hereby directed to transmit, under his hand and seal of office, to the levy court of
Frederick county, the amount of the legal costs that have accrued on the trial of Thomas Burk in
said county.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Frederick county be and they are hereby au-
thorised and directed, at their next meeting thereafter, to levy on the assessable property of said
county the amount of such costs transferred to them by the clerk of Washington county aforesaid.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the amount of the said costs shall be collected by the col-
lector of Frederick county, the said collector shall apply the same in discharging the legal costs
arising on said prosecution, in the same manner as if the trial aforesaid had have happened in Fre-
derick county.

CHAP. LXIX.

Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.

An ACT to lay out a Road in Baltimore County.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Alexis Lemmon, Christian Hively and
Peter Kitteer, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorised to survey, lay out and open, at the expense of such persons who may