T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this act shall com-
mence and be in force from and after the passage thereof,
and it shall at all times from the organization of the
company be liable to be amended or repealed at the
pleasure of the Legislature.

CHAPTER 119.

In force.

AN ACT to make valid and give effect to a deed from

Joseph Wickes, Benjamin C. Wickes, Joseph A.
Wickes and Henrietta M. Bruff, to Isaac Parsons and
Robert Nicholson, of Kent county, and to direct the
clerk of the circuit court of Kent county, to record
the said deed.

Passed
Mar. 9, 1854

WHEREAS, Mary S. Thomas, late of Kent county, by
her lost will and testament, duly and legally execu-
ted and proved, and recorded according to law, in
the office of the register of wills of said county, and
bearing date on or about the twenty-sixth day of
April, in the year eighteen hundred and forty nine,
devised that her Worton farm in said county, con-
taining five hundred and ninety acres, should be sold
as soon as possible after her death, and the proceeds
of sale be equally divided between the above named
Joseph Wickes, Benjamin C. Wickes, Joseph A.
Wickes and Henrietta M. Bruff; And whereas, the
said devisees sold and conveyed in fee, the said farm
or land to the said Isaac Parsons and Robert Nichol-
son, of Kent county, for the consideration of five
thousand and two hundred dollars, by deed duly
executed and acknowledged according to law, and
bearing date the twenty-seventh day of December,
eighteen hundred and fifty, And whereas, the said
last will and testament, did not appoint any trustee
to sell and convey the said real estate, and such sale
not being necessary to pay the debts of the testatrix,
and doubts having been expressed about the power
of the said devisees to convey the same,

Preamble.