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LAWS OF MARYLAND, Nov. SESS. 1812.

1812

shall be, or are hereby appointed trustees to make
the said sale; who, before they shall proceed to sell,
shall give bond to the State of Maryland with secu-
rity to be approved of by the chancellor, in the pen-
alty of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned for
their faithful performance of said trust; which bond
shall be tiled in the chancery office, and be liable to
be put in suit by and for the use of any person or
persons who may be injured by the non performance
of the condition thereof, and that the said trustees
or any two of them, shall also give at least three
weeks notice previous to the sale, of the time, man-
ner and terms of sale, by advertisement in one or
more news papers In Annapolis, and one or more

Trustees shall
take bonds
from purcha-
sers.

news-papers in Baltimore.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said
trustees shall take bonds or notes with security to be
approved of by them, from the purchaser or purcha-
sers of said lands for payment of the purchase
money, with interest as aforesaid, and shall return
to the chancery court, an account under oath, of their
or his proceedings under this act, and the trust hereby
reposed in them; and the chancellor may allow the
said trustees or any two of them such compensation
for their or his expences and trouble in the execution
of said trust as he may, under all the circumstances,
deem expedient and proper.

Deeds.

3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED; That
when ail the purchase money shall be paid, and the
sales ratified by the chancellor, and not before, the
said trustees or any two of them shall convey to the
purchaser or purchasers as the case may be, by a
good and sufficient deed of bargain and sale, all the
right and estate of which he the said Nicholas Car-
roll died seized in the said lands so sold as aforesaid,
and discharged from the claim of his widow and
children.

Widow's pro-
portion.

4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That
the chancellor shall and may allow to Ann Carroll,
the widow, such proportion of said sales as he cus-
tomarily doth to widows, when the real estates of
their husbands are sold by decree of chancery.

Debts.

5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That
the said trustees shall, out of the proceeds of said
sale, pay over to the administrator of the said Nicho-
las Carroll, as much money as may by him be deem-
ed necessary to pay the debts of the deceased, for
which sum so paid to the administrator, the heirs at
law of the said deceased, shall be entitled in the dis-