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CHAP. 147.
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Louisa Catharine Harvey and Emily M'Tavish, which with one
fourth allotted by consent to the said Mary Anne Patterson, and
comprising the six hundred acres conveyed as aforesaid to Robert
Patterson, make one other third of the whole, and one twelfth
each to the aforesaid four daughters of Charles Carroll, Junior,
bring the remaining third; that it is the wish of the said Mary
Anne Patterson, Emily M'Tavish. and Louisa Catharine Harvey,
and Elizabeth Caton, to which the said Robert Patterson and
John M'Tavish assent, that all the various limitations and con-
tingent interests created by the respective conveyances in trust
for them as aforesaid, for the mutual benefit of each other, and
of their respective children and descendants, should be extin-
guished and destroyed, so that each uniting with her husband,
when married, may have the absolute disposal of her own part;
which extinguishment, on account of the complicated nature of
those limitations and contingent interests, it may be difficult if not
impossible to effect by means of mutual conveyances and releases,
more especially as infants of very tender age may become inter-
ested in them, from whence may arise doubts about the title, inju-
rious to the parties; that it is also necessary for rendering effectual
the division which the said Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, has in
view, and which is equally desirable and beneficial to all parties
concerned, that the rights in the two undivided thirds, destined as
above stated for the said Catharine Harper, and the four daugh-
ters of the said Charles Carroll, Junior, which might arise under
and by virtue of the deed executed as aforesaid to Richard and
Mary Caton for one undivided third of the whole estate, and the
deeds executed by them to their daughters of undivided fourths
of that third, should be extinguished and destroyed, which extin-
guishment it is very doubtful, for the reasons stated above,
whether the parties can effect by mutual releases, or other con-
veyances, and the existence of this doubt would be very prejudi-
cial to the parties interested in the said two thirds; that for the
purpose of removing these doubts, as far as can be done by the
parties themselves, and thus enabling the said Charles Carroll,
of Carrollton, to carry fully into effect his beneficial intentions
towards the various members of his family, the said Richard
Caton, Mary Caton, Robert Patterson, Mary Anne Patterson,
John M'Tavish, and Emily M'Tavish, have joined in an inden-
ture of release to the said Charles Carroll of Carrollton, of and
for all and each of their several and joint rights, interests and
estates, in and to the aforesaid undivided third part conveyed by
him to the said Mary Caton, and her heirs, which indenture has
been duly executed, and bears date on the sixth day of this pre-
sent month, February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-
line; and that the said Louisa Catharine Harvey, who is repre-
sented by her father the said Richard Caton, would have joined
in the said indenture of release had she been present, the ar-
rangement intended to be effected being beneficial to her as well
as to her sisters, inasmuch as she, as well as they, will obtain a
clear and absolute title in severally in and to her twelfth part,
entirely subject to her own disposal, instead of her present undi-
vided interest limited over in such a manner as to deprive her of
the power of making such future disposition of it as she might
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