1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 312.

were not executed, was because the said parties, were
utterly ignorant of the existence of the said act of As-
sembly or its requisitions: therefore for the purpose of
confirming the title of the said Jane Hillerd, and to
enable her to hold, or at her option to sell the said ne-
gro children named Ann and Samuel, as slaves, until
they shall arrive at the age of twenty eight years re-
spectively: — Therefor,

Sale confirmed.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the sale of the, said negro woman named Nan,
and her children, from Jane Hillerd and John Heshey,
administrators of Christopher Hillerd, to Margaret
Hillerd and also the sale thereof from the said Mar-
garet, to the said Jane Hillerd; be taken and deemed
to be, and the same are hereby declared to be as good
and valid, to all intents and purposes, to pass the title
thereto, as if the requisitions of the third section
of the act of Assembly, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and seventeen, chapter one hun-
dred and twelve, had in both said sales been com-
plied with, and that the said negro children named
Ann and Samuel, be, and the same are hereby declared
to be the lawful slaves of the said Jane Hillerd, un-
til they shall arrive at the age of twenty eight years
respectively, in as full and ample a manner, as they
could have been, if in both the said sales or transfers,
bills of sales had been duly executed, acknowledged
and recorded, according to the provisions of the said
act of assembly.

CHAPTER 312.

Passed Mar. 21,
1838.

An act to provide for the appointment of State Directors
in the Eastern Shore Rail Road Company, and for
other purposes.

Preamble.

WHEREAS. the mode of appointing directors on the
part of the State, in the Eastern Shore. Rail Road
Company, has not been provided for by law: — There-
fore,