1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 69.

Passed Jan. 22, 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. LXIX.

An Act to alter, change and repeal, all such parts of the Constitution and Form
of Government of this State as relate to the Division of Queen-Anne's
County into Election Districts.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly by the
petition of sundry inhabitants of Queen-Anne's county, that they
experience great inconvenience for want of a fourth election dis-
trict in said county, and praying an alteration in the first and se-
cond so as to admit a fourth district between: Therefore,

Part of constituti-
on repealed.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
that part of the constitution and form of government, made such
by the act of seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, which directs
that Queen-Anne's county shall be, divided and laid off into three
separate districts,be and the same is hereby repealed.

County divided
into four districts.

2. And be it enacted, That Queen-Anne's county shall be divi-
ded into four separate election districts, and that the additional
districts shall be laid off adjoining and between the first and se-
cond districts.

Act, if confirmed,
to be part of con-
stitution.

3. And be it enacted. That if this act shall be confirmed by the
general assembly of Maryland alter the next election of dele-
gates, in the first session after such new election, as the consti-
tution and form of government directs, in such case this act, and
the alterations herein contained, shall constitute and be consider-
ed a part of said constitution and form of government, to all
intents and purposes, any thing, herein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Passed Jan. 20, 182l.
Benefit of insol-
vent laws extend-
ed to him.

CHAP. LXX.

An Act for the Relief of Otho Sprigg, of Frederick County.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
judges of Frederick county court be and they are hereby author-
ised and required, to extend to Otho Sprigg, of said county, up-
on his application, the benefit of the act of assembly, passed at
November session eighteen hundred and five, entitled, An act for
the relief of sundry insolvent debtors, and the several supple-
ments thereto, notwithstanding the deeds of conveyance to Wil-
liam Ross and Charles B. Ross, and to Charles B. Ross, bearing
date the twenty-sixth day of October, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and twenty, made and executed by the said Otho
Sprigg, and recorded among the records of Frederick county;
and it is the true intent and meaning of this act, that the execu-
tion of the said conveyances shall not be construed or understood
to form a legal impediment to the said Otho Sprigg obtaining the

Proviso.

benefit of the said ad of assembly, and its supplements; Provid-
ed, the said Otho Sprigg shall comply with all the requisites of
the said act of assembly, and its supplements, as if the said con-
veyances had not been executed, and shall convey to a trustee, to
be appointed by the said court for the benefit of his creditors, any
interest or benefit which may result to him from the said convey-
ances, and all his estate and property of whatsoever nature or
kind it may be. save such as is excepted by the acts of assem-
bly above referred to; also that nothing herein contained
shall be construed to give more effect to the deeds referred to than
they now have by law or equity.