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CHAP. 147.
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one twelfth part of all the said lands in quantity and value, to his
grand daughter Mary Sophia Bayard, the wife of Richard H.
Bayard of Philadelphia, and her heirs, being lot number ten, as de-
signated on the said plot and division, with the small or two acre
lot of the corresponding number and designation; one other deed
of conveyance by way of lease and release, of and for one twelfth
of all the said lands in quantity and value, being lot number four,
as designated on the said plot and division, with the small or two
acre, lot of the corresponding number and designation, to the
aforesaid John Eager Howard and William Howard, and the sur-
vivor of them, and the heirs of such survivor, in trust for his
grand daughter Harriott Carroll, and her heirs, subject to certain
charges in the said deed expressed; and one other deed of convey-
ance by way of lease and release, of and for the remaining twelfth
part in quantity and value, of all the said land, being lot num-
ber seven, as designated on the said plot and division, with the
small or two acre lot of the corresponding number and designa-
tion, to the aforesaid John Eager Howard and William Howard,
and the survivor of them, and the heirs of such survivor, in trust
for his grand daughter Louisa Catharine Carroll, and her heirs,
subject to certain charges in the said deed expressed; all which
last mentioned deeds of covenant to stand seised, and of release,
hear date on the seventh day of February one thousand eight hun-
dred and twenty-one, the leases referred to and mentioned in the
said deeds of release respectively, being dated on the preceding
day; and that by reason of the circumstances aforesaid, great
doubts may exist as to the validity of the titles created, or intend-
ed to be created by and held under the said nine deeds last afore-
said, which doubts, though capable of becoming very injurious in
their consequences to the parties claiming under those deeds res-
pectively, are of such a nature that they cannot be removed, ex-
cept by an act of the legislature for confirming the said titles;
therefore, the memorialists have besought this general assembly
to pass an act for confirming and rendering for ever valid the
above mentioned deeds of release from Richard Caton, Mary Ca-
ton, Robert Patterson, Mary Anne Patterson, John M'Tavish,
and Emily M'Tavish, to the said Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,
and for revesting in him, and his heirs, all the said undivided
third part of the said manor and lands in Frederick county, con-
veyed as aforesaid by him to the said Mary Caton, and her heirs,
subject to the said nine above mentioned deeds from him to sun-
dry of the memorialists, and for confirming and rendering valid,
to all intents and purposes, the said nine deeds, and the estates,
rights and interests, respectively created, or intended and pur-
porting to be created thereby, free from all manner of claim,
eight, interest or estate, except such as are created in and by the
said deeds respectively; which prayer appearing to ho reasona-
ble, Therefore,
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Certain deed and
indentures declar-
ed null and void.
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1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
aforesaid deed of covenant to stand seised to uses from the said
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, to the said Richard Caton, bear-
ing date on the sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifteen, whereby the said Charles
Carroll of Carrollton, did covenant with the said Richard Caton,
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