1852.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 142.

CHAPTER 142.

Passed April
29, 1852.

AN ACT to authorise the Commissioner of the
Land office, to issue a Warrant of Resurvey and
Patent for certain Lands in Allegany county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It has been represented to the General
Assembly of Maryland, by David Woods, that he has an
equitable title to a certain portion of a tract of land in
Allegany county, in this State, called. "Western Con-
nection," in virtue of a sale thereof made by the late
Roger Perry, under a decree of the Court of Chancery,
passed on the twenty-first day of July, in the year eigh-
teen hundred and seven, upon a bill filed by the State of
Maryland and others, creditors of a certain Gustavus
Scott, deceased, at which said sale, a certain portion

of the said tract of land, was sold by the said Roger
Perry, trustee, to one John McFadon, and whose title
and interest in the same is represented to be now held
and possessed by the said David Woods; And whereas,
the petition of the said David Woods, that his equita-
ble interest shall be converted into a legal title, is
founded in justice, and ought to be granted; There-
fore,

Authorised to
issue warrant

of resurvey.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Commissioner of the Land

office of Maryland, be, and he is hereby authorised and
required to issue a warrant of resurvey to the surveyor

of Allegany county, directing him to resurvey and lay
out for David Woods, that part or portion of a tract of
land situate in said county, called Western Connec-
tion, which was sold by the late Roger Ferry, trustee,
to a certain John McFadon, under authority of a de-
cree of the Court of Chancery, bearing dale on the
twenty-first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred
and seven, which said part of said tract of land is de-
signated, by the trustee's report of the said Roger Perry
made to the Chancellor, and the plats returned there-
with, as the first division of the first part of Western
Connection, containing eleven hundred and three acres,
more or less.

To issue pa-
tent.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon the return

of the certificate of the said resurvey, and after the
same shall have remained for six months in the land

office, it shall be the duly of the said commissioner, to
issue a patent upon the same to the said David Woods,
if no caveat shall he filed during the said period, and
in case a caveat shall be filed during the said period,
the same shall be heard and decided in the usual