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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or any of said minors or her representative, shall
pay to another of said minors or her representative,
a specific sum of money, in order to equalise the dis-
tribution; and notwithstanding a sum in cash be al-
lotted to the administrator of said Sarah A. Dryden,

Proviso.

in lieu of specific negroes; Provided always, the
administrator de bonis non of said David, and the
administrator of said Harriet Olivia, and Sarah A.
Dryden, and the guardian of said three minors, shall
signify their assent thereto.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act take ef-
fect from and immediately after its passage.

CHAPTER 138.

AN ACT for the relief of Samuel Harrington, of
Dorchester county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the General
Assembly of Maryland, that Samuel Harrington,
of Dorchester county, as one of the sureties of
John Richardson, collector of the direct and other
taxes for said county, and for the years eighteen
hundred and forty-nine, fifty and fifty-one, has been
compelled to contribute his proportion of the sum
of more than twenty thousand dollars, for which
the said Richardson was in default and failed to
pay because he was and still is utterly insolvent,
to wit: the sum of three thousand five hundred
dollars, and that the said Samuel Harrington, as
sole security on the bond of the said Richardson,
for the collector of the colonization tax, for the
. year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, had to pay
the further sum of three hundred and seventy-eight
dollars, leaving still due and unpaid on the bond
last aforesaid, the sum of one hundred and fifteen
dollars, for five years interest; and it having been
represented that the payment of the aforesaid sums
of money has nearly ruined the said Harrington,
and taken from him and his family in his old age,
the labor of years of toil, economy and self denial,
and that he prays to be released from this small