Samuel sprigg, esq. governor.

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accounts presented by the aforesaid teachers; and the said trustees
shall have power and authority to make such rules and regulations
as they may deem requisite to carry into effect the object of this
law, and shall have power to adjourn from day to day.
13. And be it enacted, That no trustee aforesaid shall receive
any compensation for the performance of the duties required of him
by this law.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Trustees not to
be compensat-

ed.

14. And be it enacted, That any thing inconsistent with or re-
pugnant to the provisions of this act and its supplements, be and the
same is hereby repealed as far as it relates to Talbot county.

Repeal.

CHAPTER 177.

An act to divorce Thomas Knock and Margaret his wife, of Balti-
more county.
Whereas, Thomas Knock of Baltimore county, by his petition
to this general assembly hath set forth, and satisfactorily proved that
his wife Margaret was delivered of a colored child in the month of
February eighteen hundred and twenty—Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said Thomas Knock, be and he is hereby divorced from
bed, board and mutual cohabitation with his said wife, Margaret

Knock.

Passed Feb. 19,
1822.

Preamble.
divorced.

2. And be it enacted, That the said Margaret shall not, by
virtue of her marriage with the said Thomas, be authorised to have
or claim any right or interest in the estate, real, personal or mixed
of the said Thomas, to be by him acquired after the passage of this
act.

Wife not to
claim right.

CHAPTER 178.

An act to divorce William Smith, and Sarah his wife, of Calvert
county.
Sec.1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said William Smith, be and he is hereby divorced from
bed and board and mutual cohabitation with his wife Sarah Smith,
2. And be it enacted, That the said Sarah shall not, by virtue
of her marriage with the said William, be authorised to have or
claim any right or interest in the estate, real personal or mixed of
the said William, to be by him acquired after the passage of this
act.

Passed Feb. 19,
1822.

Divorced.

Wife not to
claim right.

Chapter 179.
An act for the relief of Jacob Shelhorn, of Allegany county.
Whereas, It is represented to the general assembly, that Jacob
Shelhorne, of Allegany county, who is entirely deaf and almost
dumb, is confined in the common jail of said county for debt, and for
debt only—Therefore.
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That Al-
legany county court or the orphans' court of that county, shall have
and they are hereby given full and complete authority, to discharge
Jacob Shelhorne of the same county, from imprisonment for debt,
and so to do as often as he may at any time hereafter be imprisoned
for debt in said county.

Passed Feb. 19,
1822.
Preamble.

Court may dis-
charge.