1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 95.

tage would be greatly overbalanced by the benefit which they
would derive from being enabled to shut up the said street, which
would so enlarge their ground on Second street, as to put it into
their power to erect thereon, connected with the exchange build-
in?, a large and convenient hotel Tor the accommodation of stran-
gers and travellers, and a building for the use of the post office
in Baltimore, and would thereby conduce to the public conveni-
ence; which representation is found to he true, and the permission
aforesaid ought to he granted; Therefore,

Company autho-
rised to shut up
street, &c.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Baltimore Exchange Company shall be and hereby is authorised
and empowered, to shut up all or any part of the street, in the
city of Baltimore, called Exchange-street, running from Second-
street to Water-street, and separating the exchange building in
the said city from the property now or lately belonging to Cum-
berland Dugan; and that the lot heretofore condemned for a street
as aforesaid, and contained within the following metes and
bounds, viz. beginning at the northwest corner of a lot formerly
belonging to Justus Hoppe, on Second-street, and running thence
west with the said street, twenty five feet, to a lot now or lately
belonging to Cumberland Dugan, thence south sixty-six feet with
the last mentioned lot, to a lot belonging, at the time of passing
the said act, to the said Exchange Company, and formerly to the
trustees of William Belton and others, thence east, with the lust
mentioned lot, twenty five feet, to the said lot formerly belonging
to Justus Hoppe, and thence north, with the last mentioned lot,
sixty-six feet, to the place, of beginning; which lot makes part of
Exchange-street aforesaid, and was paid for in manner aforesaid
by the Exchange Company of Baltimore, shall be and hereby is
vested in the said Exchange Company of Baltimore, and their
successors and assigns.

Passed Jan. 29, 1821.
Preamble.

CHAP. XCVI.

An Act for the benefit of Samuel Jones.

WHEREAS the said Samuel Jones hath, by his petition set forth,
that he purchased the land on which he now resides, of a certain
Jonathan N. Laughlin, and paid a full consideration therefor, in
consequence of which the said Laughlin made and executed a
conveyance thereof, by a deed worded amongst the land records
of Anne-Arundel county, in Liber WSG. No. 4, folio 295. &c.
and that the said land is liable to be escheated on the decease of
the said Laughlin; Therefore,

State's right to
certain Iand re-
leased to him.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all the right, title, interest and estate, which the State of Mary-
land may now have, or may hereafter have, upon the decease of
the said Jonathan N. Laughlin, in and to the said land purchased
as aforesaid by the said Samuel Jones, he and the same hereby
are released, granted and confirmed, to the said Samuel Jones,
and his heirs, for ever.

Passed Jan. 24 1821.
Preamble.

CHAP. XCVII.
An Act for the relief of the Cumberland Bank of Alleghany.

WHEREAS the stockholders of the Cumberland Bank of Alle-
ghany, at a general meeting, have entered into a resolution to