ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER

1808.

labour, and praying that a law may pass authorising the levy court of Anne-Arundel county to assess
and levy a sum of money on the assessable property of said county for his support; therefore,

CHAP.
LXXXII.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of
Anne-Arundel county be and they are hereby authorised and directed, if they should deem proper,
to assess and levy, on the assessable property of said county, a sum of money, not exceeding thirty
dollars, for the support and maintenance of the said Jacob Penn, and that the same be collected and
paid, annually, to the said Jacob Penn, or his order, by the collector of the said county.

CHAP. LXXXIII.

Justices to levy
money, &c.

An ACT for the relief and benefit of Jacob Bantz, of the city of
Baltimore.

Passed 24th of
Dec 1808.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of Baltimore county court
be and they are hereby authorised and directed to extend to Jacob Bantz, of Baltimore coun-
ty, the benefit and relief of the assembly, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and five,
entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent deb-tors, and the supplementary acts thereto;
without compelling the said Jacob Bantz to produce any evidence of his having resided within the
state of Maryland for the two years last previous to his application for the benefit thereof, in the
same manner as if he had actually resided within this state, agreeably to the provisions of the said
act, and the supplementary acts thereto.

CHAP. LXXXIV.

Benefit to be
extended, &c.

An ACT giving power to the levy court of. Caecil county to examine
and settle the claims of Zenas Wells against the said county.

Passed 24th of
Dec. 1808.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the petition of Zenas Wells, and sun-
dry inhabitants of Caecil county, be referred to the levy coun of said county, and that the said
court have power to examine the claims of the said Zenas Wells, and if just and reasonable, the said
court is hereby authorised, if they think proper, to discharge the same in such manner as in their
judgment may appear most proper, consulting the interest and convenience of said county.

CHAP. LXXXV.

Petition refer-
red, &c.

An ACT to repeal part of an act to lay out, straighten and confirm,
a certain road in Harford county, passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and seven.

Passed 24th of
Dec 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Josias Carvill Hull,
that a law passed at November session, eighteen hundred and seven, authorising commission-
ers to lay out a road through the lands of your petitioner: And whereas the said road has since been
laid out through his lands to his great injury and disadvantage; therefore,

Preamble,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all that part of the act passed at
November session, eighteen hundred and seven, as far as the same may affect or run through the
lands of Josias Carvill Hall, be and the same is hereby repealed,

CHAP. LXXXVI.

Part of an act
repealed, &c.

An ACT to repeal the act, therein mentioned.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the act, entitled, An act to prevent
swine from going at large in the town of Belle-Air, in Harford county, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and seven, be ana the same is hereby repealed.

CHAP. LXXXVII.

Passed 24th of
Dec 1808
An act repeal-
ed.

An ACT for the relief of John M'Mullin, of Caroline county.

WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assembly by the petition or John M'Mullin,
of Caroline county, that a certain Dennis M'Mullin, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to
the United States about twenty-five years since, and had since his emigration acquired certain real
property in this state; that the said Dennis M'Mullin died in the year eighteen hundred and six, and
left the property so acquired to the said John M'Mullin, and that neither the said Dennis M'Mullin,
nor John M'Mullin at the death of the said Dennis M'Mullin, had been naturalized agreeable to the

Passed 14th of
Dec 1808.
Preamble.