ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR,

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ing one eighth thereof; and said court shall order and
direct that such portion be paid by the trustee to the
said widow, or her order.

1812.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That any conveyance
or deed which shall be made by the trustee aforesaid,
under the order of the said justices of the orphans'
court of Charles county, shall be, and the same is
hereby declared to be valid and effectual, to pass and
convey all the right, title and interest of the said chil-
dren, in and to the lands aforesaid, to the purchaser or
purchasers thereof, and their heirs respectively.

Conveyance
which shall be
made by trus--
tee declared to
be valid.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said justices
of the orphans' court be, and they are hereby author-
ised and empowered, on application of the said trus-
tee, to direct and order the terms and conditions of the
sale of the said lands, as they shall judge most for the
interest of the said children.

Justices of the
orphans' court
may order the
terms of sale.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the
death of the said children before their arrival at lawful
age as aforesaid, or their dying intestate without
issue, the said stock, so to be purchased as aforesaid,
and the proceeds arising from the sale of the said real
estate, directed to be paid to the said children by this
act, shall be considered as a part of the real estate of
the said Francis S. Manning, deceased, and shall des-
cend to his heirs at law, and legal representatives, in
the same manner as the said real estate would des-
cend if the same had not been sold under, and in vir-
tue of this act.

In case of said
children's dying
intestate, &c.
said stock and
proceeds of sale
shall be consid-
ered as part of
the real estate
of the deceased,
and descend to
his heirs at law.

CHAPTER 150.

An act to legitimate the acknowledged children of
Peter Rouck and Jacob Kershner, of Washing-
ton county.

Passed Jan. 4,
1812.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the acknowledged children of Peter
Rouck and Eve Cassell, namely, Elizabeth, Catharine
and Sarah, are hereby legitimated in the same man-
ner, and entitled in all respects to the same legal ad-
vantages, rights and benefits as the said children
would have been entitled to, had the said Peter Rouck
and Eve Cassell been lawfully married at the time of
their respective births; and the said Elizabeth, Catha-
rine and Sarah, shall and may take and use the sur-
name of Rouck; any law, usage or custom to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

Children of Pe-
ter Rouck legi-
timated.