T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

nothing herein contained shall prejudice the rights
of any purchaser for valuable consideration, or any
bona fide creditor, whose interest or rights may
have accrued since the execution and acknowledge
ment of said deed.

CHAP. 140.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

In force.

CHAPTER 140.

WHEREAS, a bill was filed on the fourth day of
February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, in the
Circuit Court for Washington county, as a Court
of Equity, by certain persons as the next friends of
Nannie Kennedy and Lydia H. Kennedy, praying
for the sale of certain real estate belonging to said
infants, situated in Washington county, Maryland,
upon the proceedings of which bill, a decree was
passed, empowering a Trustee to sell the same, but
in obtaining said decree there was omitted the usual
commission required under the act of Assembly of
eighteen hundred and eighteen, chapter one hun-
dred and thirty-three, section two, but in all other
respects the proceedings were regular, and property
of a large amount was sold and the purchasers have
paid the purchase money thereof, to correct which
omission:

Passed March
2, 1860.
Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That any of the purchasers may file their pe-
tition in the Circuit court for Washington county,
sitting as a court of equity, setting forth the above
facts, and on furnishing the judge of said court
with evidence that the sales of said real estate
were fairly conducted, that the same were sold for
a full price, and that the purchase money has been
paid, that then and in that case said court may
pass an order confirming the sales made by the
trustee in said case, and which shall vest in the

Court vested
with power to
confirm sale.