E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

CHAPTER 217.

CHAP. 217.

AN ACT to authorise the Circuit, Court for Wor-
cester county, to appoint a Trustee to execute a con-
veyance of certain real estate of Robert J. H.
Handy, deceased, to Chesed Purnell.

Passed May

4, 1852.

WHEREAS, some time prior to the destruction by fire

of the Court House of Worcester county, in the year
eighteen hundred and thirty four, a creditors bill was
filed on the equity side of Worcester County Court, by
a certain William Jones, Senior, against the children
and heirs at low of Robert J. H. Handy, for the sale of
said Handy's real estate, and a decree was obtained
therefor, appointing a trustee to make said sale, who did
accordingly sell said real estate, a portion whereof was,
purchased by a certain Chesed Purnell, who paid to
said trustee the purchase money therefor; And whereas
said trustee did afterwards die without having executed
a deed to said Purnell, for the land so purchased, and
by the said fire all the records relating to the said suit,
except the docket entries therein were burned, whereby
said Purnell may be unable to procure the appointment

of a new trustee to execute a valid conveyance of the
land so purchased by him, Therefore,

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the said suit shall be brought forward upon
the Chancery docket of the Circuit. Court for Worcester
county, in the same manner it might have been in
Worcester County Court, before the destruction of said
records, under an application for the appointment of a
new trustee to complete the trust; and upon a petition
to be filed by said Purnell in said cause, alleging that
said creditors bill was filed, that a decree was obtained
therefor for the sale of said Handy's land, and ap-
pointing a trustee therefor, that said trustee sold a por-
tion of said land to said Purnell, that said sale was fair
and bona fide and continued by Worcester County
Court, that said Purnell, paid to said trustee the pur-
chase money of the part so sold to him, that said trustee
died without executing a conveyance to him, the said
Purnell, of the part so purchased by him, and that the
said Purnell, is equitably entitled to a conveyance
therefor; the said Circuit Court, upon being satisfied of
the truth of the facts stated in such petition, by the
affidavit of the said Purnell, by the inspection of the
said original docket entries, and by such other evidence
oral or documentary, as may be produced, and deemed
proper and sufficient by said court to establish said facts,

Suit to be
brought for-
ward upon
chancery
docket.