T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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stands assessed to Thomas J. Griffith, he being the
master of the slave.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of passage.

CHAPTER 125.

In force.

AN ACT to provide for the sale of the lands re-
served for the use and occupation of the Choptank

Indians in Dorchester County.

Passed Mar.
6, 1856.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General
Assembly that the lands which were reserved and
laid off by the commissioners appointed under the
provisions of the act of Assembly, passed at No-
vember session seventeen hundred and ninety-
eight, chapter eighty-two-, for the use, benefit and
occupation of the remnant of the tribe of the
Choptank Indians, has long since been deserted
by them, and the race has become extinct, and by
the provisions of said act, the said Indians were
to have the use and benefit of said lands, so long
as they continued to occupy the same, and that
said lands now lie in an unimproved and dilapi-
dated condition, and the interest of the neighbour-
hood requires the sale thereof; Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly,
of Maryland, That Thomas I. Dail, James A. Wad-
die and John L. Willis, of Dorchester county, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners to make
sale of the State's interest in all the lands reserved
and set apart for the use of the remnant of the tribe
of Choptank Indians, or their descendants, by the
commissioners, Henry Waggaman, James Steele,
Moses Lecompte and William Marbury appointed
by and under the provisions of the act of Assembly
passed at November session seventeen hundred and

ninety-eight, chapter eighty-two.

Commission-
ers appointed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said commis-
sioners before they proceed to act as such, shall give

bond to the State of Maryland, in the penalty of

Commission-
ers shall give
bond.