THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

nearest point on Chicone branch, thence with the mean-
derings of said branch to the main road leading from the
Walnut landing to Vienna, and from thence with said
main road to the aforesaid north-west fork, branch or
prong of Nanticoke river.

CHAP. 240.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all that territory or
or neighborhood lying between the new lines, as pro-
posed by the first section of this act, and the north-west
fork, blanch or prong of Nanticoke river, shall hereaf-
ter be taken and constituted as a part and parcel of dis-
trict number one, and that the citizens thereof shall here-
after poll, at the usual place of holding elections for said
district, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 240.

Territory em-
braced in dis-
trict No. one.

An act for the relief of Jacob W. Bird, of Anne Arun-
del County.

Passed March
8, 1847.

WHEREAS, at a county court begun and held at the
city of Annapolis, in and for Anne Arundel county, a
certain free negro boy, regularly bound by deed of in-
denture to Jacob, W. Bird, of said county, was indicted
for, and convicted of larceny, and sentence passed upon
him, that he be confined in the penitentiary for the term
of five years and six months, which said sentence has
been carried into execution by order of said court; and
whereas, a petition has been presented to said court, by
the said Jacob W. Bird, praying that he may be indem-
nified for the loss of said negro boy during his appren-
ticeship, which said petition has been dismissed by said
court; and whereas, doubts are entertained as to the
light of said petitioner to take an appeal from the said
judgment of said court — Therefore,

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the clerk of Anne Arundel county court be, and he is
hereby authorised and directed, to make out and trans-
mit to the Court of Appeals, a transcript of the proceed-
ings in said cause, and the said court are hereby autho-
rised and required to take cognizance of, and hear and
determine the said cause, in manner and to every effect,
as if by law an appeal had been previously specially
authorised from said judgment, and that the said cause
shall stand for hearing and determination at the June
term, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

Clerk to make
out and trans-
mit, &c.

Hear and de-

termine.