SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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commissioners or the major part of them should proceed to execute
the several powers and authorities vested in them by that act, from
time to time, as occasion should require. And whereas, The pre-
sent commissioners or a majority of them, were prevented by sick-
ness or other unavoidable circumstances, from holding the stated
meetings contemplated and required by the said act as above recited,
whereby the legality of certain acts and proceedings of said com-
missioners have been questioned, and their authority further to act
as such has been doubted—Therefore,

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all the acts and proceedings which have been made and done by the
commissioners of the town and precincts of Princess Anne, at any
meeting held previous to the passage of this act, or that may here-
after be held by them or a majority of them, at any time whatever,
shall be valid and shall have the same effect and operation in law
as if the said meeting had been held at the stated and particular
time heretofore prescribed by law; Provided, That in every other
respect their said acts and proceedings shall have been conforma-
ble to law.

Proceedings
made valid.

2. And be it enacted, That all the powers, authorities, im-
munities and privileges, heretofore granted the said commissioners
by a law passed at December session eighteen hundred and fifteen,
be, and are hereby continued.

Powers, &c
continued.

CHAPTER 107.

A supplement to an act entitled, An act to prevent the destruction of
Oysters in this state.
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Mary/and, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for
the citizens of the state of Delaware, living on the north east prong
of Nanticoke River, or within three miles from the shore of said
river, to take and carry Oysters out of the north east prong of said
river, into the said state, for their own use and benefit, any thing in

Passed Jan. 30,
1822.

May catch
oysters.

any law contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. Pro-
vided always, That no citizen of Delaware, residing on Nanticoke,
•as aforesaid, shall take and carry away more than thirty bushels of
oysters at any one time or day.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 108.

An act for the relief of Mary Clap and others, of the City of Balti-
more.
Whereas, It is represented to this general assembly, that Elisha
Tyson, (the elder,) of the city of Baltimore, being anxious to make
a settlement of some part of his property upon his daughter Mary
Clap, for her maintenance and support, and for the advancement of
her children, and to limit the same to her separate use and benefit
during her natural life, notwithstanding her coverture, and after her
death to vest the same in her children, did, by deed of indenture
bearing date on the nineteenth day of April, in the year eighteen
hundred and fifteen, and duly recorded among the land records of
Baltimore county, in Lib. W. G. No. 132, folio 591, bargain, sell,
alien, enfeoff and convey to Isaac Tyson, William Tyson, Nathan
Tyson, Jr. and Elisha Tyson, (the younger,) among other property,
two lots or parcels of ground situate in Baltimore city; the first be-

Passed Jan. 30,

1822.

Preamble.