SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1820.

tions and liabilities heretofore between the said parties, created,
or which could be created by virtue of their marriage, be and the
same are hereby abrogated, made null and void.

CHAP. 112.

CHAP. CXIII.

An Act to authorise the Clerk of Anne-Arundel County to record a Deed of
Manumission.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that John
Gibson, late of Anne-Arundel county, deceased, by his certain
deed of manumission, bearing date the twenty-ninth of June eigh-
teen hundred and nineteen, did manumit a certain negro woman
named Harriet, purchased by him from one Robert Taite, late of
Queen-Anne's county, deceased, to be free at a future period re-
corded by mistake in Queen Anne's county; Therefore,

Passed Feb. 5, 1821.

Preamble.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
clerk of Anne-Arundel county shall record the said deed of ma-
numission, or a certified copy thereof, together with a copy of
this law, and the same shall have the effect to render the said deed
valid, as if the said deed had been recorded according to the act
of assembly in such case made and provided.

Deed to be re-
corded in A. A.
county.

CHAP. CXIV.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for the distribution of a certain fund
for the purpose of establishing Free Schools in the several Counties therein
named.

Passed Feb. 5, 1821.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Jo-
seph Green, William P. Ford, Wilson Smoot, Thomas A. Davis,
George Robertson, Thomas Price, Francis Speake, John Barnes,
Samuel Chapman, Nathan Harris, George D. Parnham, John
Edelin, Francis Digges, Theodore Mudd, Samuel Hawkins,
George Jameson, and George Forbes, he and are hereby appoint-
ed a board of commissioners for Charles county for the distribu-
tion and application of the fund mentioned in the act to which
this is a supplement.

Board of commis-
sioners appointed
for Charles coun-

ty.

2. And be it enacted, That in case, any vacancy shall happen,
the remaining commissioners, or such number as is hereinafter
constituted a quorum, shall from time to time fill up such vacancy;

Vacancies, how to
be supplied.

Provided nevertheless, that said vacancy or vacancies shall be so
filled that there shall always be one commissioner a resident of
Port Tobacco, and four commissioners residents of each of the
several election districts of the county, exclusive of the commis-
sioner residing in Port Tobacco.

Proviso.

3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall meet at
the court house in Port Tobacco, on the first Monday in May,
and the first Monday in November next, and on the same days in
each and every year thereafter, and at such other times and pla-
ces as may bo appointed by their own adjournments, and that any
five of the said commissioners shall form a quorum, and be com-
petent to do any act, mutter or thing, which the whole of the
commissioners might do.

Times of meeting,

quorum.

4. And be it enacted, That if a quorum shall not meet on any
of the days herein appointed, or at any time by them appointed,
the commissioners present may adjourn to some other day, of,
which adjournment the absent commissioners shall have due no-
tice.

May adjourn, &c.