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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Thomas Worthington, deceased, described in said deeds, together
with the deed executed to and in favor of the said Thomas Deye
Worthington, be, and the same are hereby declared to be valid and ef-
ectual in law, to convey unto the grantees in said deeds mentioned re-
spectively, and to their heirs, the lands and premises intended to be
thereby conveyed, as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as
if the said Thomas Deye Worthington had been capable of joining
in and had been a party grantor to said deeds, and thereby conveyed
his undivided interest in said lands and premises; and that said
grantees and their heirs shall hold the same forever discharged,
freed, exhonerated, of and from all claim of the said Thomas Deye
Worthington, his heirs or assigns, for said undivided interest, or of
any other person or persons whatsoever claiming or to claim the
same or any part thereof, by, from or under him, them or any of them:

Proviso.

Provided always, that nothing in this act, or the deeds executed as
aforesaid contained, shall be construed to altar or change the title
which the said grantees and Thomas Deye Worthington had in said
lands as heirs at law of the said Thomas Worthington, deceased, but
shall only enable the said grantees and Thomas Deye Worthington
to hold in severalty the lands conveyed to them as aforesaid, in the
same manner and by the same title as if the lands of said Thomas
Worthington, deceased, had been divided among his heirs according
to law, and the portions now conveyed to said heirs respectively had
been allotted to them in such division.

Other deeds to
be valid.

> 2. And be it enacted, That the two deeds executed and dated
on the said fourteenth day of January, in the year eighteen hundred
and twenty-two, by the said John Worthington, Noah Worthing-
ton, Rezin H. Worthington, Henry Fite and Mary his wife, to and
in favor of the said Marcella Worthington, for certain lands in Bal-
timore county, called Swingle's Place, containing six hundred acres,
more or less, and for certain other lands in Anne Arundel county,
called Shipley's Adventure, containing two hundred and twenty-
two acres, more or less, be valid and effectual in law to vest the said
Marcella Worthington with a life estate in the lands so granted to
her in lieu of her dower in the real estate of the said Thomas Wor-
thington, according to the purport, true intent and meaning of the
said last mentioned deeds, as fully and as amply as if the said Thom-
as Deye Worthington had been capable of joining in said deeds,
and had conveyed his undivided interest in said lands to the said
Marcella Worthington, for term aforesaid.

Passed Feb. 22,

1822.

$41 50 cts to
be levied.

CHAPTER 211.

An act for the benefit of Nathaniel Wattles, of the town of Alexan-
dria, District of Columbia.
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the levy court of Charles county, be and they are hereby authorised
and required to levy on the assessable property of said county, the
sum of forty-one dollars and fifty cents; which money, when levied
and collected, shall be paid over to Nathaniel Wattles, of the town of
Alexandria, District of Columbia, as a compensation for one hogs-
head of tobacco, which was sold by the inspector of Pomonkey
ware-house in said county.