1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 146.

appearance of the legal representatives aforesaid, in person or by
solicitor, or agent, and on the taking pro confesso, or return of
the commission, the Baltimore county court, as a court of chan-
cery, may proceed to such decree as the justice, law and equity
of the case may require, and such decree shall have the same
operation, effect and consequences, as if the legal representatives
of the said Robert Bigham had regularly appeared to the bill of
the said Joseph Jamison and Frederick Johnston, and those un-

Provisos.

der whom they claim, and the decree had passed; Provided al-
ways, that if after any decree shall he made by virtue of this acts
any of the legal representatives of the said Robert Bigham,
their heirs, executors, or any person claiming by from or under
them, shall appear in the said county court, as a court of chan-
cery, at any time not exceeding eighteen calendar months from
the time of making such decree, and request a review of the
same, the said comity court, as a court of chancery, upon a bill
being filed by any person or persons as aforesaid entitled to fill
the same, shall proceed to an examination of the matters in dis-
pute, and to a final decree affording to the equity of the case, in
the same manner as if the said legal representatives of the said
Robert Bigham, or other person or persons as aforesaid, had
originally appeared in the said county court as aforesaid; And
provided also, that such legal representatives of the said Robert
Bigham, or other person or persons as aforesaid, may at any
time before a decree shall have passed, appear in the said court,
and he admitted to defend the cause, on filing a good and suffici-
ent answer, plea or demurrer to the bill.

Passed Feb. 12, 1821.

Preamble.

CHAP. CXLVII.

An Act to declare void certain Deeds therein mentioned and to confirm others.

WHEREAS Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, of the city of Anna-
polis, his son Charles Carroll, junior, Richard Caton of the city
of Baltimore, and Mary his wife, Robert Goodloe Harper of the said
city, and Catharine his wife, which said Mary and Catharine are
the daughters of the said Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Robert
Patterson and Mary Anne his wife, John M'Tavish and Emily
his wife, Louisa Catharine Harvey, commonly called Lady Har-
vey, and now a widow, living in England, and Elizabeth Caton,
which Mary Anne, Emily, Louisa Catharine, and Elizabeth, are
the daughters of the said Richard and Mary Caton, have set
forth by their memorial to this general assembly, that the, said
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, having, by certain testamentary
dispositions heretofore made, allotted all his lands in Frederick
county, in this state, consisting of the manor called Carrollton,
and some other smaller tracts lying adjoining and near to it, as
a provision for his said two daughters, Mary Caton and Catha-
rine Harper, and for his grand daughters Elizabeth Chew Car-
roll. Mary Sophia Carroll, now Mary Sophia Bayard, the wife
of Richard H. Bayard of the city of Philadelphia, Harriott Car-
roll, and Louisa Catharine Carroll, the daughters of his son the
said Charles Carroll, junior, did afterwards, by deed duly execut-
ed and recorded among the land records of Frederick county
aforesaid, and bearing date on the sixth day of May one thousand
eight hundred and fifteen, conveying to his said daughter Mary