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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1811.

Caroline parish, have represented to this General As-
sembly, mat they sustain great inconvenience in their
attendance on divine service by being deprived of a
convenient road to Elk-Ridge church, (the old road
which they formerly used being stopt up; ) and there-
fore prayed that a law might pass empowering com-
missioners to lay out and open the said road: There-
fore,

Persons ap-
pointed to lay
out and open
raid road.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William Welling, Richard Owings
and Henry Howard (of Ephraim) or any two of them,
be, and are hereby authorised and empowered to sur-
vey, lay out and open the old road leading from Rich-
ard Owings' mill to Elk-Ridge church, of the width of
twenty-feet, and cause a certificate and plot thereof to
be returned to the clerk of Anne-Arundel county
court, to be filed among the records of said court.

Shall be used
as a public road

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road,
' when surveyed, laid out and opened, shall be used as a
public road, and may be repaired from time to time,
by the persons using the said road.

CHAPTER 41.

Passed Dec. 27,

1811.

An act for the benefit of John Deitrick Krantz, of
Frederick county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, John Deitrick Krantz, of Frederick
county, emigrated to the state of Maryland about se-
ven years since from the dominion of the Prince of Hes-
se-Cassel, in Germany, and since his emigration and
settlement, has acquired real property therein, and his
title to such property, from his not being naturalized
agreeably to the laws of the United States, may be cal-
led in question, to his great detriment and injury:

Real property
vested in him
and his heirs
under certain
provisions.

BE IT 'ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the title to the real property of the said
John Deitrick Krantz, fully and fairly acquired, be,
and the same is hereby as amply and fully vested in
the said John Deitrick Krantz and his heirs, to all in-
tents and purposes, as it would have been if he had
been duly naturalized agreeably to the said laws., at the
time when he acquired the said real property: Pro-
vided always. That nothing in this act contained, shall,
in any manner, defeat or affect any right, title or
claim to the said property, or any part thereof, ac-
quired or prosecuted by any person or persons what-
ever, before the passage of this act. And, Provided