1807.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. XXXIX.

Passed 15th of
January, 1808.

An ACT to confirm certain deeds of conveyance made to Joseph
Leonard, and other persons therein named.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Joseph Leonard, of the
city of Baltimore, that he is possessed of a term for years in part of a tract of land called
Hill's Delight, lying in Anne-Arundel county, which said interest he derives by virtue of several
conveyances, wherein the said Joseph Leonard is a party, of the validity of which doubts are enter-
tained, by reason of the said Joseph Leonard's want of citizenship at the time of their execution:
And whereas the said Joseph Leonard hath since been duly naturalized, therefore,

Deeds ratified,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the ceed from Joseph Leonard, and
Mary Anne Leonard his wife, bearing date the nineteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and one,
to Richard Key Watts, the deed from Richard Key Watts to Joseph Leonard, Mary Anne Leonard,
Philip Thomas and Henrietta Thomas, bearing date the same day and year:, and tive deed from Phi-
lip Thomas to Joseph Leonard, bearing date the eighteenth day of December, in the year eighteen
hundred and five, be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed, and made effectual to convey
the several estates intended to be conveyed, in as full and ample manner as if the said Joseph
Leonard, at the time of their execution, had been a citizen of the United States, any law to
the contrary not-withstanding; provided, that nothing in this act contained shall in any wise affect
any interest or title which any person may have acquired in and to the said land since the execution
of the several conveyances aforesaid.

CHAP. XL,

Passed 15th of
January, 1808.

An ACT to enlarge the powers of the trustees of the poor of Mont-
gomery county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS Anastatia Campbell, of Montgomery county, by her petition to this general as-
sembly, hath set forth, that she is a widow with three children, and has had for sometime:
past to support, in addition to her own family, an infant girl by the name of Jane Bradman, who is
deprived of the use of her limbs, is speechless and an idiot, and praying that the said Jane Bradman
may be supported as an out-pensioner; and the prayer of the petitioner appearing reasonable, therefore,.

J. Bradman to
be supported,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
trustees of the poor of Montgomery county, if they shall be of opinion that the peculiar circum-
stances of the said Jane Bradman are such as to render a situation in the poor-house particularly
unsuitable for her, to support her as an out-pensioner, in addition to the number now allowed by the
act, entitled, An act to enlarge the powers of the trustees of the poor in the several counties there-
in designated, and to allow to the said Jane Bradman a sum for her support, not exceeding thirty
dollars annually, to be paid at such time as the said trustees shall direct, the amount of said sum to
be levied and collected in the same manner as other expenses of the poor of the said county are le-
vied and collected; provided, that the application of the said Anastatia Campbell, for the said Jane
Bradman to be supported as. an out-pensioner, shall be recommended by the levy court of Montgo-
mery county.
CHAP. XLI.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT for the benefit of the joined evangelic lutheran and evan-
gelic presbyterian congregation of Saint-Paul's, church, in Wash-
ington county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS a certain tract or parcel of land, situate in Washington county, hath heretofore
been conveyed by Richard Shipley, late of the county aforesaid, deceased, to trustees for
the use of the lutheran and presbyterian congregations, now incorporated agreeably to an act of
assembly, entitled, An act to incorporate certain persons in every Christian church or congregation
in this state, and known by the name of The Evangelic Lutheran and Evangelic Presbyterian Con-
gregations: And whereas the said congregations have by their petition, requested that a title in fee
to the tract of land above mentioned may be declared and, confirmed to them and their successors; therefore,

Land vested,

&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said tract or parcel of land, with
all and singular the appertenances thereunto belonging or in any way appertaining, which is now
vested as aforesaid in trustees, for the use of said congregation, shall be and the same is hereby ab-