ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR,

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Maryland,, That in a certain case now pending in the
Chancery court between Peter Abrams, Harman
Kerr and wife, Joseph Harland and wife, Nathan
Blake and wife, and Thomas Protsman and wife, com-
plainants; and Samuel Jones and wife, David, Willi-
am, Rebecca and Rachel Alexander, James Alexan-
der and wife, Joseph Reynolds and wife, Edward
Alexander, Jacob Benfitt and wife, and James Dono-
hoe and wife, defendants, the chancellor be, and he is
hereby authorised and empowered, upon the hearing of
the said case, and the bill now tiled, and other pro-
ceedings therein had, and any future depositions
which may be properly, legally and duly taken and
made a part of the said case, to decree a sale of the
land mentioned in the bill, and to divide the proceeds
of such sale among the parties entitled to receive it, in
their just proportions, according to the practice and

1812.
decree a sale
and divide the
proceeds.

method used in decrees for the sale of land; Provided,
It may be made appear to him that the said land can-
not be divided to the benefit and advantage of all the
parties concerned.

CHAPTER 198.

Proviso.

An act for the relief of Upton Ross, of Calvert
county.

Passed Jan, 7,
1812.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Cal-
vert county, shall, and they are empowered at their
levy court annually, so long as they shall see cause,
to assess and levy on the assessable property of said
county, a sum of money not less than twenty five dol-
lars, for the support and maintenance of the said Up-
ton Ross; and that the same be collected annually by
the collector of Calvert county, and by him paid to
the said Upton Ross or his order,

CHAPTER 199.

A. sum of mo-
ney may be le-
vied on the
county for his
maintenance.

An act authorising Thomas Ennalls, former sheriff
and collector of Dorchester county to complete
his collection.

Passed Jan, 7,
1812.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General As-
sembly by the petition of Thomas Ennalls, former
sheriff and collector of Dorchester county, that from

Preamble.