ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR,

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the several persons, their executors, administrators,
assigns or orders, or to such of them as shall offer to
receive the same, the several sums of current money
allowed to them respectively as they appear to be set-
tled and ascertained by the said journal of accounts,
out of any money now in the treasury, or that shall
come into the treasury, subject to the appropriation
of the General Assembly.

CHAPTER 218.

1812.

A n act f or the benefit of William Davis and Eli-
zabeth Davis, of Anne-Arundel county.

Passed Jan. 7,
1812.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the levy court of Anne-Arundel
county shall, and they are hereby 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 exceeding sixty dollars,
for the support and maintenance of the said William
Davis and Elizabeth Davis his sister, who is an idiot;
and that the same be collected annually by the collec-
tor of Anne-Arundel county, and by him paid to the
said William Davis or his order.

CHAPTER 219.

Levy court shall
assess a sum of
money for ther
maintenance.

An act for the benefit of James Bruff, now of
Queen-Anne s county.

Passed Jan. 7,
1812.

WHEREAS it is represented to this General As-
sembly by James Bruff, that he has been residing in
the Western country for several years past, during
the greater part of which time he was in the military
service of the United States; but that lately he has
been farming in the state of Tennessee, from whence
he wishes to remove his family into this state to reside,
and prays that an act may pass to enable him to bring
with him one of the negroes that he now holds in that
state; and the same appearing reasonable; — There-
fore,

Preamble

BE IT ENACTED ly the. General Assembly of
Maryland, That James Bruff be, and he is hereby
authorised and empowered to remove, import and
bring into this state at any time within one year after
the passage of this act, one of the slaves which he now
has a bona fide absolute right unto, and which slave

A certain slave
may be remov-
ed into this
state.