1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 88.

Passed Jan. 30, 1821.

Informer's testi-
mony to be com-
petent.

CHAP. LXXXVIII

A Further Supplement to an act, entitled, An Act for the better Protection of

Slaveholders.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, any person or persons who
shall become the informer or informers under the act of eighteen
hundred and seventeen, entitled, An act for the better protection
of slaveholders in the several counties therein mentioned, to which
this is a further supplement, shall be competent in law to give tes-
timony.

Passed Jan. 30, 1821

Time extended for
sending out fees.

CHAP. LXXXIX.
An Act for the benefit of Thomas H. Bowie.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Thomas H. Bowie, register of the court of chancery, his execu-
tors and administrators, be and they are hereby authorised and em-
powered, to send out fees due to the said Thomas H. Bowie for the
year eighteen hundred and twenty, as register of the court of
chancery, and attorney at law, for collection or execution, at any
time until the first day of June next, any thing in any law to the

Proviso.

contrary notwithstanding; Provided however, that every sheriff
in whoso hands fees shall be placed by the said Thomas H. Bowie,
or by his executor or administrators, for collection, shall be al-
lowed until the first day of August next to deliver the accounts of fees
or bills of particulars to the respective persons, and to the fifteenth
day of January eighteen hundred and twenty-two to account for
and pay over the money for the said fees.

Passed Jan. 30, 1821.
Preamble.

CHAP. XC.

An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Union Chapel or Harford County.

WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of Harford county have by their
petition set forth to this legislature, that they have built a house
for public worship, called The Union Chapel of Harford County,
free for all denominations of Christians, and pray for an act of
incorporation to enable them to receive and perpetuate the title,
and for the regulation and organization of the said house of
worship; and it appearing reasonable that the prayer of said pe-
tition be granted. Therefore,

Trustees incorpo-
rated.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Reverend Benjamin Richardson, John Norris, Rhesa Norris,
Ralph S. Lee, William Dimmitt, Beal H. Richardson, and Ed-
ward Norris, from and immediately after the passage of this act,
shall be and they are hereby erected into a body politic and cor-
porate, in deed and law, by the name, style and title, of The
Trustees of the Union Chapel of Harford County, and that they
the trustees, by the name aforesaid, and their successors to be
elected as hereinafter mentioned, shall have perpetual succession,
and shall be able and capable to purchase, take, have, hold, re-
ceive and enjoy, to them and their successors, in fee simple, part
of a tract of land called Prospect, also part of a tract of land
called Timber Mill, not exceeding two acres, together with the
Union Chapel of Harford county erected thereon, also donations,
and oilier property , which by the constitution and laws of this state

Proviso.

may be acquired and held by any religious society; Provided ne-