138

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1812.

Children legiti-
mated. They
may take and
use the sur-
name of Kersh-
ner.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the acknow-
ledged children of Jacob Kershner, by Mary Rouck,
namely, Sarah, Elizabeth, Jacob, Mary, Gustavus and
Hannah Caroline, are hereby legitimated in the same
manner, and entitled in all respects to the same legal
advantages, rights and benefits as the said children
would have been entitled to, had the said Jacob
Kershner and Mary Rouck been lawfully married at
the time of their respective births; and the said Sarah,
Elizabeth, Jacob, Mary, Gustavus and Hannah-Caro-
line, shall and may take and use the sur-name of
Kershner; any law, usage or custom to the contrary
notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 151.

Passed Jan. 4,
1812.

A Supplement to an act entitled, "An act for the
relief of Rufus Bigelow and John G. Proud,
of the city of Baltimore,

Benefits of the
insolvent laws
granted without
requiring proof
of notice being
given to credit-

ors.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for Balti-
more county court, or any one of the judges thereof,
to extend to the said Rufus Bigelow and John. G. Proud,
the benefit of the act to which this is a supplement
without requiring proof that the said Rufus Bigelow
and John G. Proud have given the notice required by
the act entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insol-
vent debtors, passed at November session eighteen
hundred and five, and the several supplements thereto.

CHAPTER 152.

Passed Jan. 4.

1812,

An act for the relief of Joseph Ennalls, late sher-
iff of Dorchester county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, Joseph Ennalls, late sheriff of Dor-
chester county, hath set forth to this General Assem-
bly, that he succeeded a certain William Lake, who
was elected sheriff of the county aforesaid, on the first
Monday in October eighteen hundred and nine; that
the said William Lake died in April eighteen hundred
and ten, by which means the office of sheriff devolved on
the said Joseph Ennalls, (he being on the return, ) who
gave bond in the usual mode on the first day of Slay
eighteen hundred and ten, and continued to act as
sheriff of Dorchester county, until the last of Decem-
ber eighteen hundred and ten; but not giving bond