E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the report and proceedings of John U. Den-
nis, John Hargis, Jacob Boston, William Schoolfield
and Henry Wheeler, commissioners appointed by Wor-
cester county court, to divide the real estate of the late
Doctor John Stevenson, under his last will and testa-
ment, between his widow Elizabeth Stevenson, and
his three daughters, to wit: Peggy, Molly and Eliza-
beth, as made by said commissioners to said county court,
to the May term thereof, eighteen hundred and twen-
ty-eight, be, and the same is hereby ratified and con-
finned from and after the passage of this act, and that
the petition, commission, and all other proceedings un-
der the same, be recorded at length by the clerk of the
Circuit court of Worcester, in the same manner as the
clerk of the late County Court was heretofore required
to record the same, when finally ratified by said court,
and when said proceedings shall have been recorded
by said clerk of said Circuit court, they shall have the
same effect and validity, to all intents and purposes, as
if said report and proceedings had been finally ratified
by said County court, and recorded by the clerk of
said court agreeably to the laws requiring the same to
be done before said court and clerk were abolished or
superseded by the Circuit court and clerk of said Cir-

CHAP. 274.
Report and
proceedings of
commission-
ers ratified
and confirm-
ed.

cuit court for Worcester county; Provided, however
that nothing herein contained, shall prevent, hinder, or
in any wise bar the recovery of any of the said sums of
money adjudged by said commissioners to be paid for
equality of division, in case any of said sums of money
shall not, in fact, have been paid to the person or per-
sons entitled thereto.

CHAPTER 274.

Proviso.

AN ACT to fix the number of Justices of the Peace
and Constables for each Ward of the City of Bal-
timore; and for each Election District in the
several Counties of this State.

Passed May
26, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That at the next general election for dele-
gates, and at each general election for delegates in every
second year thereafter, there shall be elected for the seve-
ral wards of the City of Baltimore, by the legal and qua-
lified voters thereof, respectively, the following number

Number of
justices of the
peace and con-
stables for the
city of Balti-
more.