1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 41

the state of North Carolina; and the said Peter Ulrick having
prayed this general assembly to afford him such relief in the pre-
mises as the nature of his case requires, and his prayer appear-
ing reasonable, if the said allegations should be found to be true;
Therefore.

Authorised to pro-
secute his petition

for benefit of acts
of insolvency.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
said Peter Ulrick be and he is hereby authorised to prosecute his
petition for the benefit of the insolvent laws, without being com-
pelled to prove his residence in the state of Maryland for two
years previous to his application for the benefit of the said laws,
and that his want of residence in this state shall not prevent him

Provisos.

from obtaining the full 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 proper length
of time in the state of Maryland, and this law had not pass-
ed; And provided also, that the judge and court, or commis-
sioners, to whom he shall apply for a personal and final dis-
charge, respectively, shall be respectively satisfied by competent
testimony, other than the oath of the said Peter Ulrick himself,
that his departure and absence from this state, for about five
months, within the last two years as above mentioned, was for
a temporary purpose, and not with a view of finally abandoning
and changing his residence in this state, and that including the
time of his said absence he shall have resided two years within
this state, at the time of such his application.

Passed Jan. 22, 1821.
Preamble

CHAP. XLII.

An Act for the Relief of Ernest Voigt, of the City of Baltimore.

WHEREAS it is alleged to this general assembly, by the peti-
tion of Ernest Voigt, that he is now in confinement in Balti-
more county gaol for debts which he is unable to pay, and that he
is deprived of the right of resort to the insolvent laws of this
state, by reason of his not having resided within the state of
Maryland for two years according to the conditions of the said
laws; and that he came to this state from Germany, his native
country, in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, with the in-
tention of settling here, or in some other of the United States,
and not for the purpose of avoiding the payment of his debts; and
that he is now in confinement at the suit of Bernard H. Cook,
the freighter of the ship in which he came over, or his legal re-
presentatives, and of no other person; and it being reasonable if
he can establish the truth of these allegations, that he should be
admitted to the benefit of the insolvent laws of this state, not-
withstanding his want of two years residence; Therefore,

Authorised to pro-
secute his petition
for benefit of acts
of insolvency.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
said Ernest Voigt, be and he is hereby authorised to prosecute
his petition for the benefit of the insolvent laws of this state,
without being compelled to prove his residence in the state of
Maryland for two years previous to his application for the benefit
of the said laws, and that his want of residence in this state
shall not prevent him from obtaining the full benefit of the said

Proviso.

laws; Provided always, that in every other respect he comply
with the conditions of the said insolvent laws, as fully as if ho
had resided the proper length of time in the state of Maryland