ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

IV. AND, whereas the said Margaret Hammond and Harriet Hammond own and possess the land
on the south side of the said river Patapsco only, on which it is contemplated to erect the said
bridge, BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to affect the rights of
any other person or persons in any manner to enable the said Margaret and Harriet Hammond, or
any person who may claim under them, to build or erect the same, without first obtaining the consent
and approbation of the proprietor or proprietors of the land on the north side of the said river, in
which the said bridge is also to be erected.

CHAP. CXXIII.

CHAP.
CXXII.

Not to affect the
rights of others,
&c.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate the Chari-
table Marine Society of Baltimore.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in all cases where, by the laws of this
state, the estates of deceased mariners residing in, or sailing to or from, the port of Baltimore,
would have devolved on, and become the property of, the freeschools, or the justices of the levy
court for Baltimore county, the said estates of such mariners, dying after the passage of this act,
shall devolve on, and become the property of, the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore, in the
same manner that they would have devolved on, or become the property of, the free-schools or the
justices of the levy court for Baltimore county, if this act had not passed.

CHAP. CXXIV.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

Certain estates
to devolve on
the charitable
marine society,
&c.

An ACT to continue certain acts of assembly.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all and every act or acts of assembly
which are limitted by law lo continue to the end of the present session of assembly, or which
would expire during the same, or before the end of the next general assembly, be and they are here-
by severally continued until the thirty-first day of October next, and until the end of the next
session of assembly, unless such as are repugnant to, or inconsistent with, any law which may
have passed during the present session of assembly, and subject to any alterations, which may have
been made therein.

CHAP. CXXV.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.
Acts continued.

An ACT for the relief of Jonathan Edwards and Gilbert Middleton,
of the city of Baltimore.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Jonathan Edwards
and Gilbert Middleton, of the city of Baltimore, that they applied to the general assembly
at November session, eighteen hundred and four, to be released from debts which they were unable
to- pay, and were accordingly included in the act passed at that session, entitled, Ar. act for the
relief of sundry insolvent -debtors; that they have been unable to take the benefit of the said act,
in consequence of more than one third of the amount of their debts being due to one of the banks
in the city of Baltimore, the officers of which do not conceive themselves authorised to give their
assent to the discharge o!" the said Jonathan Edwards and Gilbert Middleton, although they have
never made any obje6Yion to the same; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of Baltimore county
court be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to extend to the said Jonathan Edwards
and Gilbert Middleton the full benefit and relief of the act of assembly passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and four, entitled, "An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, without
their producing the assent, in writing, of two thirds of their creditors, as required by the third sec-
tion of the said act, any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. CXXVI.

Benefit to be
extended, &c.

An ACT for the relief of George Gray, of Calvert county.

WHEREAS it is represented ro this general assembly, that a sum of money is yet due George
Gray lor the building a poor's house in Calvert county, which said sum of money the levy
court of said county have no power to levy upon the inhabitants thereof;

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.
Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly, That the the justices of the levy court of
Calvert. county are hereby empowered and directed, at their next levy laying term, to liquidate the
claim of the said George Gray, and ascertain what sum of money is justly due to him for building
the. said poor's house, and the justices of the levy court aforesaid are authorised and directed to

Justices to li-
quidate the
claim, &c.