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eighteen hundred and twenty, chapter one hundred and
ninety one, that thereupon a commission issued in manner
prescribed by said act, and a majority of the commis-
sioners on the tenth day of November, eighteen hundred
and twenty-three, made return thereof to said court, stating
in substance and effect that the said real estate consisted
of an unimproved lot of ground which they deemed it in-
expedient to divide, and that in their judgment and opin-
ion the said lot was of the real value of one thousand
dollars current money; that thereafter the said petitioner
being the eldest person entitled, elected to take said estate
and to pay to the others their just proportions in money;
and whereas, the said petitioner further slates that it does
not appear from the return of the aforesaid commissioners,
that the notice required by the act of Assembly was ever
given, and that by reason of the death of one of the said
commissioners, the mental incapacity of another, and the
entire absence of all recollection of the third on the sub-
ject of such notice, from the great lapse of time since the
execution of said commission, he is now unable to esta-
blish that fact; that in addition to the above defect in the
proceedings in said case, the parties entitled to the remain-
ing two-fourths of said real estate, were at the time of filing
said petition, minors, having no guardian, and for whom
none was appointed by said court; and whereas, the said
petitioner further states, that relying upon the validity of
the said proceedings, he has since the twelfth day of April
eighteen hundred and twenty-six, paid to several of the
parties the shares of said estate; and has made large dis-
bursements on account of the said lot, and as the owner
thereof, and has prayed the passage of a law to confirm
the said proceedings — Therefore,
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CHAP. 186.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That Baltimore county court or any judge thereof,
be and they are hereby authorised finally to ratify the return
of said commissioners, and to pass such other orders in
the case as to them may seem just.
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Return, &c. to
be ratified by
B. county ct.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any one of the acting
commissioners may and shall, upon the payment of the
balance which may be due by the said William P. Stewart,
when ascertained by the auditor of Baltimore county court,
to the parties entitled or into court, execute a deed in fee
simple to the said William P. Stewart, for the lot afore-
said.
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To execute a
deed, &c.
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