1848.

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 169.

act shall have been reversed on appeal to the county court,
or with respect to executions made returnable as aforesaid,
which prior to the passage of this act shall have been set

In cases now
pending no
exception to
be taken.

aside.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases now pend-
ing on warrants made returnable as aforesaid, in which
final judgment may not have been rendered, no exception
shall be taken to the form of the warrants, but said cases
shall be decided upon their merits as if said warrants had
not been issued and made returnable as aforesaid.

Have same
effect in law.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all sales under execu-
tions otherwise in due form of law, issued upon judgments
rendered in cases in which the warrant and execution
was made returnable as aforesaid, shall have the same effect
and operation in law to vest the title in the purchaser as if
said warrant or execution had been in due form of law.

In Worcester
county.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this
act shall extend only to cases in Worcester county.

CHAPTER 168.

Passed Feb.
27, 1841.

An act for the relief of the heirs of Joseph West of Fred-
erick County.

One of the
judges may
act.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any one of the judges of Frederick county court,
either during the session of the court or in the recess, may
upon the petition of the heirs of said Joseph West and
others, parties in interest, order and adjudge, that the lands
heretofore sold by the said Joseph West, but not conveyed,
be conveyed to the persons respectively entitled to the
same, and the said judge being satisfied by affidavit or
otherwise, that the facts stated in such petition are true,

Proviso.

may decree 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 decreed to be conveyed.

CHAPTER 169.

Passed Feb.
27, 1844.

An act to authorise the Levy Court of Kent county, to levy
a sum of money for the use of the trustees of school dis-
tricts number seven and eight, in the second election dis-
trict.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it has been represented to this General Assem-
bly, by the petition of sundry citizens of Chestertown, in