EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER,

1810.

rant, one copy of their valuation in each case, one other copy to the president of the company,
and one other copy to the owner or owners of the said lands, and the president of the Baltimore
and Reister's-town turnpike road company shall pay, or cause to be paid, such sum in each case to
the person in whose behalf such valuation shall be made, and in case of neglect or refusal by the
president of said company, suit may be brought against the president of the said company by action
ef debt for recovery thereof by the person entitled to receive the same.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justice of the peace, and sheriff, shall be entitled to re-
ceive the same fees for services performed under this act as they are allowed in similar cases, and
the persons summoned as jurors to value the damages or injury sustained as aforesaid, shall each
receive one dollar for every day he shall attend in the discharge of his duty for that purpose, which
fees and allowance shall be paid either by the president of the company or the person or persons
named in this act, as the case may be, against whom the judgment of the jury aforesaid may be
adjudged.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the president and managers of the aforesaid company shall
produce to the jurors, summoned to value the damages, an instrument of writing, under the hand
of either of the complainants, or such other testimony as shall satisfy them, or a majority of them,
thai such road was located and made over the lands or farms with the consent and approbation of
the owner or owners thereof, then they shall not find any damages in the case, except for costs
against such complainant or complainants.

CHAP. CXLII.

CHAP.

CXLI.

An ACT for the relief of Charles Wallace.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that Charles Wallace, of Annapolis,
sometime in the year eighteen hundred and three, executed a deed to a certain John Muir,
(now dead, ) for lot No. thirty-six, lying and being in the city of Annapolis, which deed, though
purporting to be an absolute conveyance, was designed to be in trust for the said Charles Wallace;
that in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, the said John Muir made his last will and tes-
tament, and thereby devised all his estate, both real, personal and mixed, to a certain John Murray,
physician of Augusta, but the said will being antecedent to the deed, the said lot did not pass by
the said will; and there being no person in this country who can inherit the estate of John Muir,
a certain Robert Denny issued an escheat warrant for the said lot or parcel of ground, for the be-
nefit of the said Charles Wallace, and assigned it over to him, and the devisee of John Muir being
willing to relinquish his right; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all the right, title, interest and
claim, which the state of Maryland may have in and to lot No. thirty-six in the city of Annapolis,
be and the same is hereby relinquished and released to the said Charles Wallace, and his heirs, for
ever, on the return of the certificate of the survey made in virtue of the said escheat warrant, and on
the payment for any vacant land that may be included in the survey, and on the certificate having
been examined and laid in the land-office the time prescribed by law, the said Charles Wallace, his
heirs or assigns, shall be entitled to obtain a patent thereon, in the same manner, and to have the
same effect, as if the purchase money on the estate had been paid to the state, any law to the con-
trary notwithstanding; provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall affect the tight
of any other person to the said land.

CHAP. CXLIII.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

A Supplement to the Act, entitled. An Act authorising a Lottery for
raising a sum or sums of Money for the purpose of erecting a
Building to be called The Baltimore Female Academy.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That William Sinclair, William Ross, He-
zekiah Price, John S. Hollins, Charles Robinson, Jacob Myers, Samuel Sterett, Robert Barry,
William Steuart, Thomas Sheppard, William Jackson, Benjamin Fowler, James Biays, William
Norris, Robert C. Long and James Wilson, be and they are hereby appointed managers of the lot-
tery authorised by the act to which this is a supplement, in lieu of William Sinclair. William Ross,
John Price, Thomas E. Bond, John S. Hollins, Solomon Betts, Charles Robinson, Baltzer Shaeffer,
Jacob Myers, Samuel Sterett, Robert Barry, Peter Little and William Steuart, the managers in
said act named, to do and perform the duties, and to comply with the bond or obligation therein de-
scribed, in the same manner as if named and appointed in the said original act.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.