THOMAS G. PRATT ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

be good and valid in law, and shall convey all the right,
title, claim and interest of such deceased person in such
real estate as effectually as the deed of the party so dicing
would have conveyed the same; provided, that the exe-
cutors or administrators of the person so dieing, shall
satisfy the orphans court granting him; her or them let-
ters, testamentary, orof administration, that the purchaser
has paid the full amount of the purchase money.

CHAP. 280.
Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the money so receiv-
ed by the executors or administrators, shall be returned
by him, her or there as a separate debt due the estate of
the testator or incstate, as the case may be.

CHAPTER 280.

Money retur-
ned as a sepa-
rate debt.

An ad for the relief of Cornelius Riley, Joseph W. Riley,
and Shadrack H. Hall and Sarah his wife.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General
Assembly, by the petition of Cornelius Riley, Joseph
W. Riley, Shadrack H. Hall and Sarah his wife, for-
merly Sarah Riley, that Mary Shewbrooks, late of Queen
Ann's county, in this State, died in the month of April
last, intestate, and without issue; and tha't at the time of
her death, she was seized and possessed of real and per-
sonal estate, amounting, in the whole, to the sum of about
three thousand dollars; that the same Mary Sliewbrooks
was born out of wedlock; and that the petitioners, Corne-
lius, Joseph and Sarah, are the children of George Riley,
the brother of said Maty Shewbrooks; that said George
Riley, their father, is deceased; and that the said peti-
tioners, but for the illegitimacy of the said Mary Shew-
brooks, would be entitled to her estate, and the said
petitioners accordingly prayed the passage of an act by
this General Assembly, to vest in them all the light and
title of the State of Maryland, in the estate of the said
Mary Shewbrooks.

Passed March
10, 1847.

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all the estate, real and personal of Mary Shew-
brooks, late of Queen Ann's county, deceased, so far as
the State of Maryland may claim any title thereto be, and
the same is hereby vested in the said Cornelius Riley,
Joseph W. Riley and Sarah Hall, ns tenants in common
as fully and effectually as if the said Mary Shewbrooks

State title ves-
ted in them.