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An ACT for the relief of Mary Randal, of Prince-George's County.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Prince George's
county be and they are hereby authorised and directed, to levy on the assessable property of
said county the sum of thirty dollars, for the support and maintenance of Mary Randal, and that
the said sum of thirty dollars be levied, collected and paid, under the direction of the levy court,
annually, to the said Mary Randal, so long as she shall live.
CHAP. LXXXIV.
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Passed Decem-
ber 24, 1810.
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A Supplement to the Act, entitled. An Act for the relief of Anthony
Thompson.
WHEREAS Thomas Lockerman filed a bill in Dorchester county court, as a court of equity,
against said Thompson, for a specific performance of an alleged contract: And whereas the
said Thompson filed a cross bill against him to vacate the said contract, which said bills were heard
and determined by the court at the same time and on the same evidence: And whereas the said
Thompson appealed from the decision of the court to the court of chancery, to Which only the re-
cord in the case of the bill by Lockerman was transmitted, and the. reason in the case of the cross
bill having never been transmitted to the court of chancery, omitting the evidence received and
heard at the trial below: And whereas on a writ of diminution issued from the chancery court, direct-
ed to the clerk of Dorchester county, he returned that no evidence had been taken on the cross bill,
and thereupon the chancellor, on the appeal, had to consider the cause on the bill and answer alone,
Without regard to the evidence, although the evidence on which the decision below was made was
before him, transmitted in the record on the bill filed by Thompson; and it appearing to this gene-
ral assembly that the same evidence, by the mutual acquiescence of the parties, and by the informa-
tion of the judge who tried the cause, were used in each case, and it appearing just and reasonable
that each case on the appeal should be considered on the evidence at the trials below, therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
chancellor to review the decree made by him in the case of the appeal on the bill filed by the said
Thompson, and to reinstate the said case, and that the same, in virtue of this act and the act to
which this is a supplement, shall, on the determination of the chancellor to review the same, stand
and be in the same situation as if the decree of the chancellor had not passed.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in reviewing the said decree, and examining the decree of the
county court in the case of the cross bill filed by said Thompson, the chancellor shall and he is
hereby authorised to act on and form his decision as well on the record transmitted in that case, as
on the evidence transmitted to the court of chancery in the case of the bill filed by said Lockerman,
in the same manner, and to bear the same effect, as if that evidence made on part of the cross bill
filed by said Thompson, and the said appeal on the cross bill shall and the same is hereby declared
to stand and be before the chancellor, to every intent and purpose, as if the same had been with
the evidence contained in the record on the bill filed by Lockerman in the most formal manner
transmitted to him, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That either party interested herein shall have a right of appeal from
the decision of the chancellor to the court of appeals for the western shore.
CHAP. LXXXV.
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Passed Decem-
ber 24, 1810.
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An ACT for the relief of Patrick Dunn.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Anne-
Arundel county, be and they are hen. by authorised and directed, as long as they may think
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 Patrick Dunn, of Annapolis, and that the same
be collected and paid to Patrick Dunn, or his order, by the collector of said county.
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Passed Decem-
ber 24, 1810.
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