ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER,

1807.

William, Robert, Wilson, Daniel and John Elliott, have by their petition to this general assembly
represented, that a certain agreement and arrangement was heretofore made by the administrators
of Robert Elliott, deceased, with the creditors of the late firm of Elliott, Williams and Co. which
is highly beneficial to the representatives of the said Robert Elliott, and that a bill hath hitherto
been filed in the court of chancery by Elie Williams against Anne Elliott, Nathaniel Rochester,
Calunder Irwin, and Patience his wife, William, Robert, Wilson, Daniel, Harriet, John, Jesse,
St. Clair and Elie Williams Elliott, for the purpose of carrying into effect the said agreement and
arrangement, but doubts being entertained as to the powers of the court of chancery in the said
premises, and the said petitioners having prayed that a law may pass giving authority to the court
of chancery to decree the execution of the said agreement and arrangement; and the prayer of the
petitioners appearing reasonable, therefore,

CHAP.
CLVI

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the court of chancery shall be and
is hereby empowered, on the bill and proceedings before referred to, or on any other bill and pro-
ceedings hereafter to be filed, to examine into the agreement and arrangement referred to and set
forth in the bill before mentioned, and if the said agreement and arrangement referred to and set
forth in the bill before mentioned, and if the said agreement and arrangement shall appear to the
said court fair and equitable, and beneficial to the estate of the said Robert Elliott, deceased, the
said court shall have full power and authority to decree the execution thereof, and pass any other
decree that the principles of equity shall warrant.

CHAP. CLVII.

Chancery court
to examine, &c.

An ACT to provide for transcribing of certain land records in Prince-
George's county, and for making out an alphabet to the same.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that some of the land records of Prince-
George's county are in a ruinous situation, and daily. liable to destruction, and that there is
no general alphabet to the said records; therefore,

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of Prince-George's coun-
ty court be and they are hereby authorised and required to cause to be transcribed, by the clerk of
the said county, in good leather bound books, to which fair and regular alphabets shall be prefixed,
such records as they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary and proper to be transcribed.

Records to be
transcribed,
&c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges are hereby authorised and empowered to cause
the said clerk to make out a general alphabet to all the land records in the said office.

An alphabet to
be made.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said clerk shall receive the same fees for his services as he
is by law entitled to receive for services of a similar nature.

Clerk's fees.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of Prince-George's county shall levy on the assess-
able property of said county such sum of money as the fees for transcribing said records, and making
out a general alphabet as aforesaid, may amount to, to be collected and paid over by the collector of
said county to the clerk aforesaid.

CHAP. CLVIII.

To be levied on
the county,
&c.

An ACT authorising the levy court of Washington county to ap-
point commissioners to review the road therein mentioned.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of John Shank, of Wash-
ington county, that a road has been laid out from Peter Baker's to Robert Hughes', by virtue
of a law passed November session, eighteen hundred and six, and confirmed by the levy court of
said county, which is highly injurious to the said John Shank, and praying a law may pass authorising
the levy court of Washington county to appoint commissioners to review the ground, and report
whether a better direction for said road can be fixed upon; and the prayer of the petitioner appear-
ing reasonable, therefore,

Preamble

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Washington coun-
ty be and they are hereby authorised to appoint three discreet persons, freeholders in said county,
commissioners to review so much of the road laid out by commissioners from Peter Baker's to Robert

Court to ap-
point persons;

&c.