ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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which said commissioners or a major part of them,
are hereby authorised and required to receive and ap-
ply the same, to the use and purpose as by this act is
directed.

1811.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioners, or the majority of them, shall be, and they
are hereby authorised and required to contract and
agree for the building of the said jail, and to direct
the plans of the same; which jail shall be erected on
the public ground in Charles-town, commonly called
Port Tobacco, in Charles county, and when erected,
finished and completed, shall be used, held, taken and
deemed to be the proper jail of Charles county.

Where to be
erected.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any of
the said commissioners shall die, remove, refuse or
discontinue to act, the remaining commissioners or
the majority of them, shall appoint one or more per-
sons, (as the case may be, ) to fill up such vacancy

Commissioners
are authorised
to fill up their
own vacancies.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commis-
sioners or the majority of them, shall render a full and
fair account to the levy court of said county, of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of all monies which shall be
by them received and expended by virtue of this act

CHAPTER 56.

Commissioners
shall render a
full account of
al! receipts and
expenditures to
the levy court.

An act to give validity and operation to a Deed
therein mentioned.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the deed of conveyance made by
John Fletchall, of Montgomery county, to Mary At-
wood, of the same place, bearing date on the twenty-
third day of October eighteen hundred and five, duly
executed and acknowledged before Lawrence O'Neale
and Gasaway W. Harwood, two justices of the peace
for Montgomery county, shall have the same force,
operation and effect, as it the same had been duly re-
corded; Provided The same be recorded among the
land records of Montgomery county within sixty days
after the passage of this act; saving nevertheless to all
persons whatsoever, any rights by them acquired to
said property, and leaving in full operations and vali-
dity, any claim or claims that now might be binding
upon or considered as affecting said property.

Deed made va-
lid under cer-
tain provisions.