1810.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. CLX.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

An ACT to subject Equitable Estates in Lands to Sale under Writs
of Fieri Facias.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
it shall and may be lawful for any sheriff, or other officer, to whom any writ of fieri facias shall
be directed, to take, seize, and expose to sale, any equitable estate or interest which the defen-
dant or defendants named in such writ of fieri facias may have or hold in any lands, tenements or
hereditaments.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons who shall purchase any equitable estate
or interest in any lands, tenements or hereditaments, which shall be sold in virtue of the provisions
of this act, shall be entitled, upon payment of the purchase money, to an assignment or conveyance
of such equitable interest, to be made by the sheriff, or other officer, making such sale, and shall,
in consequence of such purchase and assignment or conveyance, stand, as to title, and be entitled,
to such remedy against all persons, and in all cases, as the person or persons whose title he, she
or they, may so purchase.
CHAP. CLXI.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

An ACT for the relief of Charles H. Willigman, an insolvent debtor,
of the City of Annapolis.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges, or any one judge, of
Anne-Arundel county court, be and they, or any one of them, are hereby authorised and di-
rected, to extend to Charles H. Willigman the benefit and relief of the act of assembly passed at
November session, eighteen hundred and five, entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent
debtors, and the supplements thereto, without compelling him to produce the assent of two thirds
in amount of his creditors, and to extend and afford to the said Charles H. Willigman all the bene-
fits, advantages and provisions, of the aforesaid act, and the supplements thereto, in the same man-
ner, and upon the same terms and conditions, as if he had obtained the assent of two thirds of his
creditors to his release under the same.

CHAP. CLXI1.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

An ACT to ratify an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States of America, proposed by Congress to the Legislatures of the
several States.

WHEREAS at the second session of the eleventh congress of the United States, begun and
held at the city of Washington, in the territory of Columbia, on Monday the twenty-
seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and nine, it was resolved as followeth, to
wit: "Resolved, by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in
congress assembled, two thirds of both houses concurring, that the following section be submitted
to the legislatures of the several states, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of
the states, shall be valid and binding as a part of the constitution of the United States. If any
citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain, any title of nobility or honour,
or shall without the consent of congress, accept and retain any present pension, office or emolu-
ment, of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall
cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or
profit under them, or either of them. "

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the aforesaid amendment be and the
same is hereby confirmed and ratified.

CHAP. CLXIII.

Passed Decem-
ber 25, 1810.

An ACT for the benefit of the Heirs of Benjamin Gould, of Queen-
Anne's County.

WHEREAS Anne Kerr, Charles R. Nicholson, and Maria his wife, and John Gould, by his
guardian James Hall, of Queen-Anne's county, have by their petition to this general assem-
bly set forth, that a certain Benjamin Gould, the father of the petitioners, died seized of a tract
of land called Holt's Castle-Hill; that upon the death of the aforesaid Benjamin Gould application
was made to Queen- Anne's county court to divide the aforesaid land between your petitioners, that