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CHAP. CLXVI.
An Act to continue in force the Acts of Assembly which would expire with the
present Session.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland. That all
such acts, and parts of such acts of assembly, as would expire
with the present session of assembly, be and the same are hereby
continued until the twentieth day of November next, and to the
end of the next session of assembly which .shall happen thereaf-
ter.
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CHAP. 166.
Passed Feb. 14, 1821.
Acts continued.
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CHAP. CLXVII.
Art Act for the Benefit of John M'Tavish.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, on the
part of John M'Tavish, and Emily his wife, that she has lately
become entitled to the reversion in fee, depending upon a life es-
tate in her grandfather, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, of the
city of Annapolis, of a large and valuable landed estate, in Frede-
rick county in this state, being part of the manor of Carrollton,
and designated as lot number five in a late division thereof made
by order of the said Charles Carroll of Carrollton, which lot is
specially described in and by a deed of conveyance thereof from
her said grandfather to her, by way of covenant to stand seised
to uses, bearing date on the seventh day of February one thou-
sand eight hundred and twenty-one: that the said John M'Tavish
being a subject of the King of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and having resided too short a time in the
United States to become a citizen thereof in less than four or five
years, much embarrassment, injury and loss, might result from
his disability, as an alien, to take and bold an estate by the cour-
tesy in the said lands, in case, of such an event as would throw
such an estate upon him; that even during the life-time of the
said Emily, there would be much doubt and inconvenience from
the same source, and probably considerable loss, if they should
find it at any time convenient to sell the said land, or any part of
it; and that they have an infant son, Charles Carroll M'Tavish,
about whose rights of citizenship and inheritance, although he
was bom in the United States, great doubts might exist, to his
great injury and loss; wherefore they have besought this general
assembly to pass an act to enable them, severally and respective-
ly, to take and hold the said lands, under and by virtue of the
said deed, as fully and beneficially, according to the respective
estates created thereby and resulting therefrom, as if the said
John M'Tavish had been a citizen of the United States, and of
this state, at and before the time of the making of the said deed,
and to sell and convey the same, and to transmit it to their said
son, or any future child or children, by descent, gift, conveyance
or devise, as fully and beneficially as if the said John M'Tavish
had been a citizen of the United States, and of this state, at the
time of the said conveyance first above, mentioned; which request
appears to be reasonable; Therefore,
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Passed Feb. 14, 1821.
Preamble.
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1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
said John M'Tavish shall be and hereby is declared and made
able and capable in law, his alienage notwithstanding, to take,
receive and hold, an estate for his own life in the said lands, as
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Made capable to
take and hold es-
tate in certain
lands.
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