1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 93.

CHAPTER 93.

Passed Feb.
25, 1847.

An act entitled, an act for the benefit of Jane Black and
others.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been represented that a certain Jo-
seph Black, late of Baltimore county, died in eighteen
hundred and thirty, leaving a widow named Jane Black,
and five children, two of whom are now of age, and that
the said Joseph Black left certain unproductive pro-
perty, consisting of soap-stone quarries and water tights,
on the Patapsco Falls, in Baltimore county; that it
would be for the interest of the parties concerned that
these quarries and water rights should be leased with
such land as may be necessary to use them to advan-
tage — Therefore,

Authorised to
execute a good
and valid lease.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the said Jane Black, the widow afore-
said, and guardian of William C. Black, Bathsheba
Black and Joseph Black, the three minor children of the
said Joseph Black be, and she is hereby authorised and
empowered to execute and make a good and valid lease
for ninety-nine years, renewable forever, or for any shor-
ter term or terms of all or any part of the properly afore-
said leased.

Acts valid one
binding.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all the acts done by
the said Jane Black in pursuance of this act, shall be as
valid and binding to all intents and purposes, as if they
had been done by the said William C. Black, Bathsheba
Black and Joseph Black, after they attain to the age of
twenty-one years.

Give bond. &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Jane Black,
before she proceeds to execute the lease authorised by
this act, shall give bond in the usual form with security
as guardian to the minor children, in such penalty as the
orphans court of Baltimore county shall direct for the
due performance of her duty as such; provided never-

Proviso.

theless, that nothing in this act contained shall be con-
strued to authorise the said Jane Black, as guardian
aforesaid of said infant children, to execute said lease so
as to bind the rights and interests of said infants in said
water rights and soap-stone quarries, after their arrival
at full age, unless the orphans court of Baltimore coun-
ty, upon a full and satisfactory examination, shall certify
and record the same among their records, their judg-
ment and opinion that said lease, if now executed, will
be for the benefit of said infants.