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CHAPTER 217.
An act to perfect and make valid the title of John B. Tho-
mas, of Queen Anne's County, to certain Negroes there-
in mentioned.
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CHAP. 217.
Passed Feb. 26,
1841.
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WHEREAS, John B. Thomas, of Queen Anne's county,
administrator of a certain Nathaniel Wright, late of said
county, deceased, having heretofore set forth to the judges
of the orphans' court of said county that he had made ma-
ny fruitless efforts to sell and dispose of a negro woman
named Ann and her two children, Alexander and Nat, be-
longing to said estate; that he had offered them at the ap-
praisement without being able to effect a sale; and the said
John B. Thomas being desirous to settle and close his ad-
ministration on said estate, the said orphans' court, at the
December term thereof, in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-three, did pass an order authorising and permitting
the said John B. Thomas to take the said negroes at their
appraised value, and that he be the purchaser of said ne-
groes; and whereas, the said John B. Thomas, by virtue of
the said order and authority of the said orphans court, did
take said negroes on said terms, and has since completed
his administration and passed a final account, and in said ac-
count has been charged with, and accounted for the ap-
praised value of said negroes; and whereas, the title of the
said John B. Thomas, acquired as aforesaid to the said ne-
groes, might be hereafter questioned and become a subject
of dispute and litigation, unless the proceedings of the or-
phans' court aforesaid in tins behalf, be ratified, confirmed
and made legal by legislative enactment; and for that pur-
pose, and the more effectually to secure the title of the said
John B. Thomas in and to the said negroes, and to prevent
any dispute, controversy or suit that might hereafter arise
or be brought for or about said negroes — therefore,
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Preamble.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the proceedings aforesaid of the said orphans' court,
be ratified, confirmed and made legal; and that the title of
the said John B. Thomas in and to the said negro woman
Ann, and her two children Alexander and Nat, acquired as
aforesaid, be and the same is hereby made perfect, and as
valid and effectual in law, to all intents and purposes, as if
he the said John B. Thomas, had purchased said negroes
from the said Nathaniel Wright during his life time.
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Proceedings
confirmed.
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