1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 189.

CHAPTER 188.

Passed Mar. 20,
1838.

An act for the relief of Reuben Tall, former Sheriff
and Collector of Dorchester county.

Authority to
collect.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Reuben Tall, former sheriff and collector of Dor-
chester county, be, and he is hereby authorised and
empowered to collect and receive all and any balance
or amount of officers' fees, chancery taxes, and fines
and forfeitures and county taxes which may be due to
the said Tall, in the same manner, and with the same
power and privileges as are allowed by law, and in the
same manner, and to the same effect, as if the term of
office of the said Tall, as sheriff and collector as

Provisos.

aforesaid, hart not yet expired; provided, that nothing
in this act shall be construed to affect the estate of any
deceased person; and provided also, that this act shall
only continue in force for one year from its passage.

CHAPTER 189.

Passed Mar. 20,
1838.

An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Hannah More
Academy, in Baltimore county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, Mrs. Ann Neilson, late of Baltimore
county, deceased, animated by the pure spirit of
Christian benevolence, and a desire to promote the
religious education of poor female children, did, by
her last will and testament, bearing date the fifteenth
day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and
recorded in the office of the Register of Wills of Bal-
timore county, devise to Washington Vanbibber and
George L. Vanbibber, and the survivor of them, and
the heirs of such survivor, two lots or parcels of
ground in the said county, in trust, for the purpose of
establishing a female seminary, to be called, as direct-
ed by the codicil to said will, "The Hannah More
Academy;" and did also bequeath to the said Wash-
ington Vanbibber the sum of ten thousand dollars, in
trust, for the same object; six thousand dollars, part
thereof, to be expended in the erection of a suitable