LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.	9
	the Pennsylvania line in the direction to Lund's ta- vern" be and the same is hereby repealed. CHAPTER 7.	1812.
	An Act for the relief of Henry Cross of the city of Baltimore.	Passed Nov 16, 1812.
	BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the judges of Baltimore county court, or any one judge in court setting, or in the re- cess of the said court, be, and they are hereby authoris- ed and directed to extend to Henry Cross who is now confined in the jail of Baltimore county, the benefit of the act of Assembly passed at November session eighteen hundred and five entitled, An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the several supplements thereto, without requiring proof of his residence in this state for two years preceding his application. CHAPTER 8.	Benefits of the insolvent laws granted.
	An Act authorising William Merryman, late she- riff and collector of Baltimore county, to com- plete his collection, and for other purposes.	Passed Nov. 14, 1812.
	WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly, by the petition of William Merryman, late sheriff and collector of Baltimore county, that from the multiplicity of business which necessarily devolved on him during his sheriffalty he was una- ble to complete his collection within the time limited by law, or to ascertain and make an annual return of insolvencies, so as to be allowed the same by the commissioners of the tax for Baltimore county, in consequence whereof he is without remedy unless by the interference of the General Assembly; and the said William Merryman having prayed that a law may pass extending to him for a reasonable time all the powers necessary to collect the balances due him as sheriff and collector, and to authorise the levy- court to levy for him the sum of money which may appear to be due him in consequence of payments made by him on the property of insolvents as collec- tor; which prayer appearing to be reasonable and proper: Therefore,	Preamble.
	SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem- bly of Maryland, That the said William Merryman be, and he is hereby authorised and empowered until the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred 2	Collection— limited to Jan. 1, 1815,