THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

be, and he is hereby declared to be divorced from his
wife, Mary Maxwell, a vinculo matrimonii.

CHAPTER 18.

CHAP. 19.

An act to divorce Lydia Moore, of the City of Baltimore,
from her husband, John Moore.

Passed Jan. 22,
1838.

Be in enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Lydia Moore, of the city of Baltimore, be, and
she is hereby declared to be divorced from her husband
John Moore, a vinculo matrimonii.

CHAPTER 19.

Divorce.

An act to make valid a certain deed therein mentioned.

Passed Jan. 26,
1838.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General
Assembly by the petition of John Christy of Allegany
county, that he purchased of a certain Levi Dawson of
said county, sundry tracts of land lying and being in
said county, and because of the removal of said Daw-
son to a remote Western State, did receive from said
Levi Dawson and wife, a deed properly executed on
the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-seven, for the lands thus purchas-
ed, which deed has been since recorded in the clerk's
office of said county, and whereas it appears that the
aforesaid John Christy is a native of Scotland, and
was not at the date of the execution and receipt of the
said deed a naturalized citizen, but has since become so,
as appears by the certificate of the clerk of Allegany
county: — Therefore,

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said deed from the said Levi Dawson and
wife, to John Christy, executed and acknowledged on
the twenty-fifth day of September, eighteen hundred
and thirty-seven, be and the same is hereby declared
to be as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes
as if the said John Christy at the date of its acknowl-
edgment execution and reception had been naturalized

Deed confirmed.