1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 272.

Anna B. Tilghman, John Galloway Lynn and Rebecca,
his wire, to the said Samuel M. Semmes, dated on the
third day of June, in the year aforesaid, and recorded in
the same Liber, folios 238, 239 and 240; the deed from
Frederick A. Schley and Barbara his wife, to the said
Semmes, dated on the first day of July, in the year afore-
said, and recorded in the same Liber, folios 254 and 255;
the deed from Peter Wingert and Elizabeth his wife, and
Henry Wingert and Eliza his wife, to the said Semmes,
dated the seventeenth day of June, in the year aforesaid,
and recorded in the same Liber, folios 277 and 278; the
deed from Normand Bruce, sheriff of Allegany county,
to the said Semmes, dated the sixth day of July, in the
year aforesaid, and recorded in the same Liber, folios
286, 287, 288, 289, 290 and 291; and lastly the deed
from William Taylor and Lavina Taylor his wife, to
the said Semmes, dated on the second day of November,
in the year aforesaid, and recorded in the same Liber,
folios 353 and 354.

Execute bond.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That within ninety days
after the passage of this act, the said Samuel M. Semmes
and the said Henry Thomas Weld, shall execute a good
and sufficient title to all and singular, the said real estate,
mentioned and described in said deed, to the Mount
Savage company, and upon failure so to do, thin act
shall be null and void.

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CHAPTER 272.

Passed Mar.
5, 1846.

An act to authorise, and empower Sarah A. Wilcoxon to
manumit Negro slave Hanson Coates, upon certain con-
ditions.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It has been represented to this General As-
sembly by Sarah A. Wilcoxon, that her husband, Horatio
Wilcoxon, in his lifetime, in the year eighteen hundred
and thirty-nine, sold and conveyed by bill of sale to John
Lee, of Frederick county, a certain negro man, named
Hanson Coates, to serve till twentieth December, eigh-
teen hundred and forty-five, with the express understand-
ing and agreement between the parlies, that after the ex-
piration of that period, the said negro man was to be
absolutely free, in consideration of his faithful services
and good conduct through life, and that this agreement
and declaration was unintentionally omitted to be stated
an the said bill of sale — therefore.