183S.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 253.

Property defined.

house standing thereon near the said Beaver Dam
Causeway, which was on the twenty-ninth day of
August, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, con-
veyed by the aforementioned Rebecca Mooth to the
aforementioned Samuel Thomas, senior, Ezekiel Mer-
rick, Philemon Spencer, Charles Spencer, Thomas
Seward. Levit Cecil and Simeon West, to them and

For school house.

their successors in office forever, as a school house for
the use and benefit of the people of the said vicinity,
and which said house and lot is fully described by
metes and bounds in the said deed contained, and now
being of record in Liber J. B. No. 1, folio, five hun-
dred and forty-seven, one of the land record books in
the clerk's office for Queen Ann's county aforesaid.

Title vested.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That upon said deed of in-
denture being executed as aforesaid, and on the con-
veyance of the said described lot by the said Tristram
Thomas and William Downes to the aforementioned
Trustees of the said Methodist Episcopal Church, that
then the title to said lot and house shall fully and ab-
solutely vest in the said trustees and their successors
in office, for the use and benefit of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, in the vicinity of the said Beaver Dam
Causeway, in the same manner, and with the same
effect as if it had been originally conveyed to them for
that purpose by the said Rebecca Mooth.

Repealing clause.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all other acts, or
parts of acts, inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

CHAPTER 253.

Passed Mar. 26,
1839.

An act to make valid Deeds therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General
Assembly of Maryland, by the petition of Elisha Brown,
that John Brown, and Joseph Brown, Thomas Cress-
well and Mary Jane, his wife, and William Brown
and Kitty Ann, his wife, did execute to the said Eli-
sha Brown, papers purporting to be deeds of convey-
ance of all their interest, right, and title, to two tracts
or parcels of land, lying in Cecil county, Maryland,
and Chester county, Pennsylvania, which said papers