1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 151.

prietor or proprietors, for any term not exceeding five
years, and disposing of the said lease for the best price
in current money, that can he had for the same at pub-
lic sale, and on the same notice as is before directed,

Case of overplus.

and if there should be any overplus of the money rais-
ed by distress or lease, and sale as aforesaid, remain-

ing in the hands of said directors, after paying the

proportion of the said proprietor or proprietors, in
arrear as aforesaid, the said overplus shall be return-
ed to the said proprietor or proprietors, to whom it

Minors' rights pro-

tected.

belongs; provided always, that if any proprietor or
proprietors, from whom arrears shall be due, shall be
under the age of twenty-one years, it shall not be law-
ful for the said directors, during the infancy of such
proprietor or proprietors, to raise the said arrears or
any part thereof, by distress and sale of goods and
chattels, but by lease and sale aforesaid.

Case of vacancy.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That in case of the death,
resignation, disqualification, or refusal to act, of any
of the said directors at any time hereafter, it shall and
may be lawful for any of the directors to meet as
soon as conveniently may be thereafter, at any place
agreed on by said directors, or a majority of them, to
appoint a director to fill such vacancy, and the person
so appointed, shall be and be is hereby declared a di-
rector to all intents and purposes.

CHAPTER 151.

Passed Mar. 6,
1839.

An act to make valid a deed from Robert Bruce to Samuel
M. Semmes.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, on the eighteenth day of October, in the
year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, Robert Bruce,
of Allegany county, executed to Samuel M. Semmes,
of the same county, a deed of conveyance for certain
property, and for the purposes in said deed mentioned;
and whereas, the name of the grantee is inadvertantly
omitted in the habendum of said deed of conveyance;
and whereas, the acknowledgement of the same deed
is not made in strict accordance with law; and whereas,
it is important to the parties interested therein that