SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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which means the young shad are destroyed, and the owners not

known,
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the owner or owners of every fish pot in the River Susquehannah,
shall, in the month of August every year, notify the two several
constables that may be appointed to examine the pots, that he, she
or they are the owner or owners of such pot, describing the same
in such manner that the said constable may know them; and in case
any pot shall be erected after the month of August in any year,
and during the fishing season, the owner or owners of such pot
shall give notice thereof to the said constables immediately; and
in case any constable appointed as aforesaid shall find a fish pot
erected in the said river constructed in such manner as to destroy
the young shad, and contrary to the provisions of the several laws
on this subject, that then and in that case such constable shall cut
down or otherwise destroy such pot.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Owners of fish
pots to notify
constables, &c.

CHAPTER 210.

An act for the benefit of the widow and heirs at law of Thomas Wor-
thington, late of Baltimore county, deceased.
Whereas, It appears to this general assembly, by the petition of
Marcella Worthington and others, that Thomas Worthington, late
of Baltimore county, deceased, was, at the time of his death, seized in
fee of a large real estate, which it was his intention to devise to his
children according to a division made thereof in his life time,
which intention was defeated by his sudden death without having
executed his intended will: And whereas, it also appears that the
said real estate descended to John Worthington, Noah Worthing-
ton, Rezin H. Worthington, Mary O. Fite, wife of Henry Fite, and
Thomas Deye Worthington, the children and heirs at law of the
said deceased, subject to the right of dower of the said Marcella
Worthington, his widow, and that for the purpose of carrying into
effect the intentions of the said deceased, deeds were executed by
the said widow and all of the heirs aforesaid excepting the said
Thomas Deye Worthington, which deeds bear date on the four-
teenth of January in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two :
And whereas, it also appears that said Thomas Deye Worthington
is a lunatic and incapable of joining in any deed of conveyance, and
that in said division full and equal justice was rendered to him,
and the part allotted to said lunatic was regularly conveyed to him ;
and as it seems to be reasonable that the arrangement entered into
by the said widow and heirs at law should be confirmed so as to
enable them to hold their respective portions of the lands of the de-
ceased in the same manner as if the said Thomas Deye Worthing-
ton had been capable of joining in said deeds, and had been a party

Passed Feb. 22,
1822.

Preamble.

grantor thereto—Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the deeds executed and bearing date on the fourteenth day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two, by Marcella Worthing-
ton, John Worthington, Noah Worthington, Rezin H. Worthing-
ton and Henry Fite and Mary his wife, purporting to convey to the
said John Worthington, Noah Worthington, Rezin H. Worthing-
ton and Mary O. Fite, wife of the said Henry Fite, respectively, and
to their heirs and assigns, the portions of the real estate of the said

Deed made va-
lid.