1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 41.

CHAPTER 40.

Passed Mar. 17,
1840.

A further supplement to an act, entitled "an act to author-
ise and empower persons owning real estate on any of the
navigable waters of this State, to construct wharves
thereon, " passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-five, chapter one hundred and sixty-eight.

Power to con-
struct wharves.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That John J. Heckart and Abraham L. Jarrett, shall have
and exercise the same power to make and construct
wharves on their lands in the river Susquehanna, in Har-
ford county, not extending more than three hundred feet
from high water mark, that persons owning lands in fee
simple, on any of the navigable waters of this State, have

Proviso.

under the act to which this is a supplement; provided,
that the said wharves shall not be constructed to as to in-
terfere with any of the rights and privileges of the Tide
Water Canal Company.

CHAPTER 41.

Passed Mar. 20,
1840.

An act relating to Stock held by Non-Residents, and to pro-
vide and easy mode of transferring the same.

Stock held by

non-residents

to devolve on
executor, &c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That if any person being a resident of any oth-
er State, District or Territory of the United States, or of
any foreign country shall die, possessed of or entitled to
any of the public stocks or debt created or issued upon
the credit of this State, or of the stock or debt created or
issued upon the credit of the city of Baltimore, or of the
capital slock of any joint slock company incorporated by
the authority of this State, his right or title thereto shall
devolve upon his executor or administrator duly constitu-
ted and appointed as such by the law of the State, Dis-
trict, Territory or country, wherein he may have resided at
the time of his death, in the same manner as if the said
executor or administrator had been duly constituted and
appointed as such by the proper authority in this State.

Not to deprive
courts granting

letters testamen-

tary, &c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed to deprive the courts of this
State of their authority to grant letters testamentary, or of
administration on the estate of any such deceased person;