1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 227

In force.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That this act shall con-
tinue and be in force until the first day of January eigh-
teen hundred and seventy, and until the end of the first
session of the General Assembly which shall happen
thereafter,

CHAPTER 227.

Passed
March 7, 1848.

An act to authorise the sale of certain real estate therein
mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General
Assembly by William K. Deford and Sarah Ann his
wife, formerly Sarah Ann Beck, and by Samuel T. Har-
rison, guardian to Edward Reck and Charlotte Ann
Beck, children of Edward Beck, deceased, that a com-
mission did heretofore issue out of Queen Anne's coun-
ty court to John Brown, Richard E. C. Downes, junior,
George Spry, James Bateman and Charles McAllister,
to divide the real estate of the said Edward Beck, de-
ceased, consisting of a tract or part of a tract of land
called Spread Eagle, and a house and lot situated in the
town of Church Hill, according to the provisions of the
act passed at December session eighteen hundred and
twenty, chapter one hundred and ninety-one, which said
real estate is represented to be in gradual daily decay
and incapable of a division without detriment to all the
parties interested; and whereas, it is believed that under
the provisions of the aforesaid act the commissioners
aforesaid cannot be authorised by the judges of Queen
Anne's county court to make sale of the said real es-
tate, even if the same be incapable of division without
detriment — Therefore,

County court
may direct a
sale.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners aforesaid, or a ma-
jority of them, be and they are hereby authorised and
empowered, if in their judgment or the judgment of a
majority of them, the said real estate cannot be equally
and fairly divided without loss and injury to all the par-
ties interested, to make return of their said opinion to
Queen Anne's county court aforesaid, and in the event
of such return of opinion, then and in that case the
judges of the said court be and they are hereby au-
thorised and empowered to direct a sale of said leal
estate, and to have all other proceedings in relation