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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1811.

Commissioners

appointed, who
are authorised
to ascertain the
boundaries of
certain lots.
They shall
make a return
of proceedings
and a plot, to be
recorded.

may be confirmed, and commissioners be appointed to
settle the boundaries thereof: — Therefore,
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That James Steel, John Ashmore, Richard
Kenley, John Quarles and Reuben Stump, be, and
they are hereby appointed commissioners, and, they,
or a majority of them, are hereby authorised to settle
and ascertain from the best evidence that can be pro-
cured, the original location and boundaries of the lot
or lots of land, or of such part (if not the whole) as
have been in possession of the vestry of St. George's
Parish in Harford county, upon which the Deer Creek
Chaple stands; and the said commissioners are here-
by vested with all and singular the powers given by
the act of seventeen hundred and eighty-six, to com-
missioners for marking and bounding land, and the
several supplements thereto; and that they shall pro-
ceed in the same manner as by said act directed, and
make a correct return of their proceeding with a plot
of such land as by them so found, to the clerk of Har-
ford county court, there to be recorded.

In case no ac-
tion be brought
within a certain
time, said land
shall be con-
firmed to the
vestry,

AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case no suit
or action be brought within the time limited by the act
aforesaid, for making and bounding land, to call in
question the adjudication of the commissioners, the
marking and bounding said land as aforesaid, and the
record thereof shall be conclusive evidence, of the ori-
ginal location thereof; or if the adjudication of the
commissioners shall be confirmed by verdict of a jury
in any suit as aforesaid, the adjudication of the com-
missioners in the point confirmed by the jury, and be-
tween the parties, and those claiming under them, shall
conclude to every intent and purpose, and the said
land shall be forever thereafter secured and confirmed
to the vestry of said Parish and their successors, in as
full and ample a manner as if a deed or deeds had
been regularly executed and recorded therefor.

CHAPTER 104.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

An act for the relief of Levin Carey, of Worces-
ter county.

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

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of
Worcester county shall be, and they are hereby
directed and 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 mo-