SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1820.

docs not require that a landing place should be established at the
aforementioned place, they shall report such opinion in writing
to the levy court aforesaid; and each of the commissioners here-
by appointed shall have an allowance of two dollars for each and
every days attendance in discharging the duties herein required,
to be levied, collected, and paid over to them, as other county
charges are levied, collected and paid over.

CHAP. 178.

5. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons whose land
may be condemned for the landing aforesaid, shall conceive him-
self or themselves aggrieved, either by the assessment of damages,
or by the location and condemnation as aforesaid, it shall and may
be lawful for such person or persons to pray an appeal from the
decision of said commissioners, or the said levy court, to the
judges of Somerset county court, who are hereby authorised and
empowered to empannel a jury, and by a feigned issue or issues
to be framed for that purpose, try any fact or facts that may be
thus put in issue, and finally to decide on such appeal as to them
shall seem just and equitable.

Persons aggriev-
ed may appeal to
county court.

CHAP. CLXXIX.

An Act for the benefit of John Barnes, Clerk of Charles County.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That John
Barnes, clerk of Charles county, be and he is hereby authorised
and empowered, to send out fees for the year eighteen hundred
twenty-one, for collection or execution, at any time until the fif-
teenth day of May next, any law to the contrary notwithstand-
ing; Provided however, that every sheriff in whose hands fees
shall be placed by the said John Barnes for collection, shall be al-
lowed until the fifteenth day of June next to deliver the accounts
of fees, or bills of particulars, to the respective persons, and to
the fifteenth day of December next to account for and pay over
the money for the said fees.

Passed Feb. 28, 1821.

Allowed further
time to send out
fees, &c

Proviso.

CHAP. CLXXX.

An Act for the relief of Lewis Helmes, of the City of Baltimore.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that Lew-
is Helmes of the city of Baltimore, is now imprisoned in the Bal-
timore county gaol for debts which he is unable to pay, and that
he is deprived of the benefit of the insolvent laws of the state by
reason of his not having resided in the state of Maryland for the
last two years; Therefore,

Passed Feb. 15, 1821.

Preamble.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
said Lewis Helmes shall be and he is hereby authorised to prose-
cute his petition for the benefit of the insolvent laws of this state,
without being compelled to prove his residence, in the state of Ma-
ryland for the last two years previous to his application for the
benefit of said laws, and that his want of residence shall not dis-

Authorised to
prosecute petition
for benefit of in-
solvent laws.

qualify him from obtaining the benefit of the said laws; Provided
always, that in every other respect he comply with the conditions
of the said insolvent laws, as fully as if he had resided the pro-
per length of time in the state of Maryland, and this law had not
been passed; And provided further, that he satisfy the court or
commissioners, from whom he may obtain his discharge, by com-
petent testimony other than his own oath, that he hath not come

Proviso.