FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

taxes now remaining due and uncollected by said Mayberry
in the county aforesaid, in the same manner and with the same
privileges and powers as are allowed by the existing laws

chap. 235.

in such cases made and provided.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall not con-
tinue in force longer than two years from the first day of
July next.

Continue for
two years.

CHAPTER 234.

An act for the relief of the Heirs of William D. Bell, of
Washington County.

Passed March
7, 1842.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any one of the judges of Washington county court,
either during the session of the court or in the recess, may
upon the petition of the heirs of said William D. Bell and
others, parties in interest, order and adjudge, that the lands
heretofore sold by the said William D. Bell, but not convey-
ed, be conveyed to the persons respectively entitled to the
same, and the said judge being satisfied by affidavit or other-
wise, that the facts stated in such petition are true, may de-

Judge may
decree.

cree upon the same without answer; provided, that all the
parties in interest join in said petition, as well infants by
their guardians or next friend, as others and the said judge
shall appoint a trustee to convey the lands ordered and de-
creed to be conveyed.

Proviso

CHAPTER 235.

An act to make valid a Deed therein mentioned.

Passed March
4, 1842

Whereas, a deed was heretofore made and executed by
William D. Crouch and Harriet A. Crouch his wife, to
Frisby Price and James W. Price, for part of a tract of
land called "Cumberwell, " lying and being in Queen Ann's
county, in the State of Maryland, and acknowledged on the
seventeenth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred
and forty, before Barnett Thomas, one of the justices of
the peace in and for Clark county in the State of Illinois, as
appears by certificate endorsed thereon by the clerk; and
whereas, the proper date was inadvertently omitted to be
inserted in the body of said deed, and the deed has not been

Preamble.