THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

it may be lawful for such officer to sell, lease or rent, or
in any manner dispose of such properly, as may seem
most advisable, and to recover any money due the State
by reason of such sale, lease or renting, by suit or dis-
tress, and in case of a sale to execute good and suffi-
cient deeds for the property so sold, on compliance with
the terms of sale by the purchaser thereof; and the trea-
surer is hereby authorised and directed to pay for the
cost of advertising such properly aforesaid as may re-

CHAP. 144.

main unsold; provided nevertheless, that nothing here-
in contained, shall be construed to deprive any party of
the rights of redemption as secured by the existing laws
of this State.

CHAPTER 144.

Proviso.

An act to authorise William W. Handy, of Somerset
County, to emancipate certain slaves.

Passed Feb.
25, 1847.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assem-
bly of Maryland, that a certain Isaac Burroughs, alias
Isaac Cothell, late of Somerset county, deceased, was in
his lifetime possessed of certain slaves, who were his
wife and children, and for whom he held a bill of sale;
and whereas, the said Isaac departed this life intestate,
without any relations within the fifth degree, by reason
of which the whole surplus of his personal estate after
payment of debts and expenses of administration, hath
devolved upon the State of Maryland.

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That William W. Handy, administrator of the said Isaac
Burroughs, alias Cothell be, and he is hereby authorised
and empowered to execute a deed of manumission for
the said negro slaves, belonging to the estate of said
Isaac, to be acknowledged and recorded as other deeds

Authorised to
execute deed
of manumis-
sion.

of manumission; provided nevertheless, that nothing here-
in contained shall be construed, in any wise, to effect the
rights of any administrator of said Isaac, or the claim of
said William, for his commission and expenses of ad-
ministration; and provided also, that said negroes when
emancipated, shall be subject to all the provisions of the
act entitled, an act relating to the people of color of this
State, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
thirty-one.

Provisoes.