1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 220.

writ, warrant or other precept bad been served upon
the president and directors of said company.

CHAPTER 219.

Passed Mar. 19,
1838.

An act to make valid a certain Deed therein mentioned,
and for other purposes.

Deed confirmed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the deed or instrument of writing from
John Webb, of Kent county, to a certain Thomas Al-
ford, of same county, bearing date on the tenth day of
March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, be, and
the same is hereby declared valid for the purposes of
conveying all the estate, real, personal and mixed, of
him, the said John Webb, to the said Thomas Alford,
in trust for the benefit of the creditors of the said John

Webb.

Insolvent laws
extended to.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the judges of Kent
county court are hereby authorised and required to
grant unto the said John Webb the benefit of the seve-
ral laws relating to insolvent debtors, upon his petition
accompanying said deed; provided, the said Webb shall
have complied in every respect with the provisions of
said laws, except in executing a valid deed of trust to
his said trustee.

CHAPTER 220.

Pasted Mar. 19,
1838.

An act for the benefit of the heirs of William Brown,
late of Carroll County, deceased.

Appointment of
trustee.

SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland., That the orphans' court of Carroll county
be, and they are hereby authorised and required as

To sell.

soon as may be, after the passage of this act, to ap-
point some suitable person as trustee to make sale of
certain portions of the real estate of said William
Brown, deceased, viz: all the interest he held at his
death in a tract of land called Mount Misery, at or
near Ellicott's Mills, in Anne Arundel county.