SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any deed or deeds of bargain and sale which now is, or here-
after may be executed by the said Barnhard Lowman, Frederick

Bell or Peter Bell, or their heirs, for said lot number seven in Ha-
ger's-town, to the moderator and commissioners of Hager's-town,
and their successors in office, and acknowledged according to the
act of the general assembly of Maryland, made and provided for
the acknowledgments of deeds of bargain and sale, shall be good
and available, both at law and in equity, and shall vest the title in
the said moderator and commissioners of Hager's-Town and their
successors forever, for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Ha-
ger's-town, according to the true intent and meaning of the origi-
nal act to which this is a supplement.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Deed to be va-
lid.

2. And be it enacted, That the said moderator and commis-
sioners, or their successors in office, shall have authority to sell
such portion or portions of said lot number seven, as they, in their
judgments may consider more than is necessary for said market-
house, and to apply the money arising from such sale, to the build-
ing of said market-house, and to convey to the purchaser or pur-
chasers, the said overplus of said lot, by a deed or deeds of bargain
and sale executed according to the acts of assembly made and pro-
vided for conveying land in the state of Maryland; and such deed,
so executed by said moderator and commissioners, or their suc-
cessors in office, shall be valid at law and in equity to all intents and
purposes, and shall vest the title in such overplus of said lot in
such purchaser or purchasers, their heirs and assigns forever.

CHAPTER 67.

An act to revive the proceedings of the Orphans' Court of Caroline
county.
Whereas, It is represented to this General Assembly, that the
Orphans' Court of Caroline county stood adjourned until Tues-
day the eighth day of January eighteen hundred and twenty-two;
And whereas, On the aforesaid day none of the members of said
court appeared to call and adjourn the same, from causes unknown;
And whereas also, On the said day of adjournment, the said court
became vacated for want of some authorised person to call and ad-
journ the same, therefore all the proceedings and process in the

said court were discontinued—for remedy whereof,

Commission-
ers may sell o-
ver plus.

Passed Jan. 18,

1822.

Preamble.

Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all the judgments, rules, entries, acts, process and proceedings, de-
pending in the said court, on the day aforesaid, shall be, and the
same are hereby revived, reinstated and placed on the docket, and
under the jurisdiction of the court, in the same manner, state and
condition as they would have been, if the said court had met on the
said eighth day of January, aforesaid; and the said judgments, rules,
entries, acts, process and proceedings had been duly continued by
regular and lawful adjournment from time to time, any law, usage
or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

Proceedings
revived.

CHAPTER 68.

An act fir the benefit of Lebanon Chapel, in Talbot county.
Whereas, It has been represented to the general assembly of
Maryland, by the petition of certain members of the Methodist

Passed Jan. 19,
1822.
Preamble.