1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 244.

ther time to complete his collections, passed December
session eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chapter one
hundred and thirteen, be and the same is hereby extended
until the first day of July eighteen hundred and forty-one.

CHAPTER 243.

Passed Mar. 12,
1840.

An act entitled a supplement to an act, entitled an act to build
a Bridge over Little Elk Creek, near the Rock Meeting
House, in Cecil County, passed at December session eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter forty-one.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it appears to this General Assembly, by an
act of the legislature passed at December session eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven, chapter forty-one, that John
Mackey, William B. Biles and James Ewing, were ap-
pointed commissioners to build a bridge over Little Elk
creek, near the Rock meeting house, in Cecil county, and
that said John Mackey, one of the before mentioned com-

missioners, is since dead; and whereas, the commissioners

of Cecil county have doubted whether they have the pow-
er to fill said vacancy— Therefore,

Vacancy to be
filled.

Be it enacted, That the commissioners of Cecil county,
be and they are hereby empowered to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the death of John Mackey, heretofore men-
tioned in the preamble to this bill.

CHAPTER 244.

Passed Mar. 14,
1840.

An act to record and make valid a Deed therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that a certain Hugh Jordan and Ann Jordan, his wife,
which Ann Jordan is now deceased, made and executed a
deed of conveyance of a certain tract of land, situate, lying
and being in Cecil county, in this State, to a certain Josiah
W. Smith, of Clearfield county, in the State of Pennsyl-
vania, on certain trusts and for certain purposes in said
deed mentioned, bearing date on the twenty-eighth day of
September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-seven; and whereas, it is also represented, the said
deed of conveyance has not been acknowledged or record-