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C H A P.
XLI.
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county, Mark Pringle, of the city of Baltimore, Philip Thomas and George Gale, of Cecil county,
Abel Humphreys, of the city of Philadelphia, Robert Lloyd Nichols, Lloyd Nichols, James Holly-
day, Henry Hollyday, Thomas Whittington, William B. Smyth, and Mary Hindman Smyth his wife,
one of the daughters of the late William Perry, David Kerr, the younger, and Maria Kerr his
wife, the other of the daughters of the said William Perry, of Talbot county, have set forth, that
they, together with the representatives of George Humphreys, late of the city of Philadelphia, de-
ceased, are interested in the real property held by the company usually known by the name of The
Havre-de Grace Company, and that on the twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and four, a division of the same was made by lot amongst them, in which
division the respective part of each was ascertained, and that a plot of the division, in conformity
with the agreement of the parties, has been recorded in Harford county court, but in as much a
doubts are entertained, whether, in point of law, such, division, although just and equitable, is suf-
ficient to separate the respective interests, and to vest a legal estate in the parties mentioned in said
division, have prayed that a law might pass to confirm the same; and the prayer thereof being real
sonable, therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the aforesaid division or partition
by lot of the property aforesaid, the plot whereof is recorded as aforesaid, shall be and the same
hereby is confirmed and made valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes whatever, and that the
respective persons named in said division, and the representatives of the person or persons deceased
which deceased person or persons appear by said division to be entitled to a proportion of said pro-
perty, shall, immediately from and after the passage of this act respectively stand and be seized of
and entitled to, a good and indefeasible estate, in fee-simple, as well in law as in equity, in their
several and respective shares of the lands and lots forming the subject of the said division, according
to the said division and partition, as marked out and ascertained upon the plot aforesaid, and shall
hold the said shares, and the lands and lots therein comprehended, in severally, as fully, to all in-
tents and purposes whatever, as if all the parties interested, either legally or equitably, in the said
partition and division, as members of the said Havre-de-Grace company, or as claiming under a
member or members of the said company, had been parties to the same, and were of full age, and
were in all other respects able to do and had done every act proper and necessary to make the same
effectual, and as if the trustees of the Havre-de-Grace company, in whom the legal title now re-
sides, had duly made and acknowledged the proper conveyances and assurances in the law thereup-
on, and such conveyances and assurances had been duly recorded.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the plot aforesaid, so as aforesaid recorded in Harford county
court, shall be safely kept among the land records of the said court, and shall, in all times hereaf-
ter, be held, taken and considered, in all courts of law and equity, to be conclusive evidence of the
lines and location of the said shares and lots aforesaid, as among and against all and every the per-
son and persons herein named, and the representatives of the aforesaid George Humphreys, and all
persons claiming by, from or under them, or any of them, or as or by, from or under, a member of
members of the said Havre-de-Grace company, saving to all other persons their several and re-
spective rights. !
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Passed 25th of
January, 1806.
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CHAP. XLII.
An ACT giving further powers to the corporation of the city of
Baltimore.
WHEREAS William Patterson, and others, have, by petition to this general assembly, repre-
sented, that by the act of former owners of a tract of land now called Rogers's Addition to
Baltimore-town, and a law passed pursuant thereto at November session, eighteen hundred and two
the said tract; and parcel of ground was made a part of the said town, and subjected to all the regu-
lations and ordinances thereof; that at the time these petitioners purchased their several interest
therein, it was commonly believed and supposed by them, that Rogers's addition did adjoin immedi-
ately thereunto, but it now appears, that a considerable space of ground, unaffected by any act of
incorporation with the town aforesaid, does intervene and separate Rogers's addition from the im-
proved part thereof, and with the distance of said addition, does entirely cut off and deprive the
holders of lots in that part of the now city of Baltimore, from all the benefits and advantages con
templated by the junction and incorporation of the same, leaving them at the same time burthened
with all the charges and expences, as well as inconveniencies, of regulations, often ill suited to their
local situation under the jurisdiction of the corporation aforesaid; and as it appears evidently just
equitable and necessary, that such unequal condition of burthen, without reciprocal benefits, should
be relieved,
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