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Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.
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An ACT to authorise the sale of certain Land belonging to the Estate
of Stephen Wilson, late of the City of Baltimore, deceased.
WHEREAS Moore Falls, the guardian of the estate of the children of Stephen Wilson, late
of the city of Baltimore, deceased, together with John M'Neal, and Eliza his wife, and Isa-
bella Wilson, two of the daughters of the said Stephen Wilson, have, by their petition to this gene-
ral assembly, represented, that the said Stephen Wilson died seized and possessed of part of a tract
or parcel of land called Salisbury Plains, containing between three and four acres, lying about one
mile from the city of Baltimore aforesaid, the improvements on which are in so ruinous a situation
that the said property is entirely unproductive, useless and burthensome, to the said estate, and that
it will be greatly to the interest of the heirs of the said Stephen Wilson to sell and dispose of the
said real estate, and to vest the money for their use in bank stock, or some other public fund; and
this general assembly being satisfied of the propriety of the said application, therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Moore Falls, the guardian of the
persons and estates of Eliza Wilson, (who hath intermarried with John M'Neal, ) Isabella Wilson,
Armanella Wilson and Robert Wilson, together with the said John M'Neal, be and they are hereby
authorised and empowered to sell, at vendue, upon a credit of twelve months, after giving one
month's previous notice of the time and place of such sale, all the real estate of which the said
Stephen Wilson died seized in that tract or parcel of land called Salisbury Plains, lying in Balti-
more county, and which was conveyed to him by Abraham VanBibber, by deed bearing date on or
about the eighth day of July, in -the year seventeen hundred and ninety-four, and recorded in the
land records of Baltimore county court, and upon receipt of the purchase money to convey the said
property to the purchaser or purchasers thereof.
III. AMD BE IT ENACTED, That the said Moore Falls and John M'Neal shall be and they are
hereby authorised and directed to vest the money arising from the sale of the said real estate, when
received, in stock of some of the banks of thia state, or in stock of the United States, and that be-
fore they shall proceed to make the, said sale, in virtue of this act, they shall enter into bond to the
said minors, in the penalty of fifty thousand dollars current money, with two securities, to be ap-
proved of by the orphans court of Baltimore county, aforesaid, and lodge the same with the register
of the said court, with condition that they will well and truly perform the trust reposed in them by
this act, and account with, and deliver over to the said minors respectively, when they shall be en-
titled to- receive the same, their respective proportions of the purchase money, and interests, arising
by the aforesaid sale, and invested in stock, in pursuance of this act.
CHAP. CXXI.
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Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.
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A Further additional Supplement to the Act, entitled, An Act to as-
certain the allowance to Jurymen and Witnesses of the General
Court, and the several County and Orphans Courts in this State.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That there shall be allowed to each grand
and petit juryman attending the county court, and each petit juryman attending the orphans
court, for Somerset county, in this state, the sum of two dollars for each and every day such grand
and petit jurymen shall attend for the discharge of his duty as such, to be allowed, assessed and
levied, in the same manner as the allowance to jurymen have heretofore been assessed and levied.
II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all laws heretofore passed, whereby any allowance is directed to
be made to any juryman for his attendance as aforesaid, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far
as the same shall be repugnant to, or in any manner inconsistent with, the provisions contained in
this act.
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