1810.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.

CXVI.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the right and title of the state of Maryland in and to the
said one hundred and sixty acres and three quarters of an acre of land, part of Flagg's Meadow, be
and the same is hereby transferred to the executors named in the said lust will and testament, in
trust, to sell the same agreeably to, and for the purposes mentioned in, the said last will and testa-
ment.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid trustees, and their successors in office, duly elect-
ed, by the name aforesaid, shall be capable in law and equity to sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in any court of justice whatsoever, and
may have a common seal, and the same may alter, break or renew, at pleasure, and this act of in-
corporation shall be construed, reputed and adjudged, in all cases most favourable in behalf of said
institution, so as the more effectually to carry into execution the purposes of this act.

CHAP. CXV1I.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

An ACT for the relief of Francis C. Hall, of Queen-Anne's County.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Francis C. Hall,
that Matthew Tilghman, late of Kent county and state of Maryland, died intestate, leaving
issue Edward, Sarah and Henry, and seized of real and personal estate in the state of Delaware,
part of which said personal estate consists of negro slaves; that he has intermarried with the said
Sarah, whereby he has become entitled to a proportion of said negro slaves, and that he resides
upon his farm in Queen-Anne's county aforesaid, and prays that an act may pass to enable him to
remove such portion of said negro slaves, as upon a division had may be allotted to him, out of the
state of Delaware into this state; and the prayer of the said petitioner appearing reasonable, there-
fore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Francis C. Hall be and he is
hereby authorised and empowered to remove, import and bring, into this state, at any time within
one year after the passage of this act, such slave or slaves as he may have, upon a division of the
said estate of Matthew Tilghman aforesaid, a bona fide absolute right unto, and which slave or
slaves, or the mothers of which slave or slaves, shall have been resident of the state of Delaware
three whole years next preceding such removal or importation, and the same to retain as slaves.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to enable the said
Francis C. Hall to sell or dispose of any slave or slaves imported by virtue of this act, or their in-
crease, until the said slave or slaves shall have resided within this state three whole years next pre-
ceding such sale, except in cases of disposition by last will and testament, and disposition by law
for bona fide debts, or consequent upon intestacy.

CHAP. CXVIII.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

A Supplement to an Act, entitled, An Act to lay out, straighten and
amend, a certain Road in Harford County.

WHEREAS it is represented, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of Harford county, that
they have sustained much injury by reason of a road laid out through their land under the
original law to which this is a supplement, for which adequate compensation hath not been adjudged
to them by the commissioners therein mentioned, and praying that other commissioners may be ap-
pointed to estimate such damages, and further that the said commissioners may. be authorised to re-
view the said road from where Isaac Davis did live to the upper cross roads; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That John Moores, Thomas Hope and
Thomas Ayres, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review
the road leading from the Maryland line, near the Quaker's meeting-house, called the Fawn Meet-
ing-House, in Pennsylvania, thence by Slade's mill to the Baltimore road, at or near Isaac Davis's,
and estimate the damages sustained by individuals in consequence of said road passing through their
lands, and return the same to the levy court of Harford county, and before the said commissioners
shall proceed to act under this law they, and each of them, shall take the following oath, or affirma-
tion: " I ——, do swear, or affirm, that I will faithfully and impartially, according to the best o, f
" my judgment, estimate the damages sustained by reason of a road laid out under an act to lay out,
" straighten and amend, a certain road in Harford county, passing through their lands. "

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall not re-
turn a greater amount of damages than made by the former commissioners, in that case the person*