SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 159.

An act to ascertain and to establish in the third district of Somerset
county, a proper place for holding elections.
Sec.1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Robert Cluff, Robert J. Henry, Thomas Marshall, Doctor
Thomas Robertson, George Davy, Joseph B. Brinkley, Dickerson
Dougherty, James Lawson, Elisha Gunby, shall be, and they are
hereby appointed and authorised, or a majority of them, to make
choice of a place in the third district in Somerset county, in lieu of
the present place of holding elections in said district, at which the
elections shall hereafter be held, as nearly central as shall be practi-
cable, having regard to population, extent and the convenience of
votes, and the accommodation of persons attendant upon such elec-
tion; and the commissioners shall, on or before the fifteenth day of
July next, deliver to the clerk of the county court of Somerset, a
description in writing under their hands and seals, specifying plain-
ly the place in the said district where the elections for such district
shall be held in future; and the said clerk shall record the same in
the records of the county; and at the place so specified, all elections
for said district shall in future be held.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Passed Feb. 14,
1822.
Commission-
ers—to fix on
place of hold-
ing elections,

&c.

2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners appointed by
virtue of this act, shall meet at Carroll's corner, on the first Monday
of April next, for the purpose of performing the duties imposed by
this act; and the commissioners or commissioner so meeting, may
adjourn from time to time, and from place to place, until the object
of this law is completed; and each commissioner for each day's at-
tendance performing the duties required by this act, shall receive
one dollar, to be levied and collected and paid over as other county
charges are.

To meet.

CHAPTER 160.

An act for the relief of William A. Schoolfield, relating to certain
land therein mentioned.
Whereas, William A. Schoolfield, of Somerset county, has ob-
tained from the land office on the Eastern Shore, a warrant of
escheat on a part of a tract of land taken up by a certain Randal
Mitchel, of Somerset county, which said warrant was laid on the
twelfth day of April eighteen hundred and nine, and certificate
thereupon returned to the said land office; And whereas, The com-
position money due for said land has been paid into the Treasury,
and all the preliminary steps requisite to obtain a patent on said
warrant have been taken by the said Schoolfield; but the name of
the said Randal Mitchel, the person dying last seized of the land
included within the lines of the said certificate of said Schoolfield,
and without heirs, was omitted by the said register in the said war-
rant, by reason whereof the said Schoolfield has failed in his appli-

cation for a patent on said warrant—Therefore,

Passed Feb. 14,
1822.

Preamble.

Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the judge of the said land office is hereby authorised and re-
quired, on the said William A. Schoolfield making it appear to
him by satisfactory evidence, that the said Randal Mitchel died in-
testate and without heirs, and was the last person seized of the said
tract of land included in his the said Schoolfield's warrant and certi-
ficate, to order and direct the said register to alter and amend said

Judge of land
office may a-
mend warrant
—patent.