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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

county, the head or heads of any crow or crows, and make oath or
affirmation that the crow or crows was or were killed in said coun-
ty, between the fifteenth day of April and the first day of July, and
were not caught or taken alive in any other county, and that no
certificate hath been obtained from any other justice of the peace
for the same, such person, for every such head, shall be allowed in
the county levy, the sum of twenty cents; and the justice of the
peace before whom such head or heads shall be brought, is hereby
required to give the person bringing the same a certificate thereof,
stating the number of heads, and that they were burnt in his pre-
sence; for which said oath or affirmation and certificate, the Justice
of the Peace shall be entitled to eighteen and a half cents, to be
paid by the party requesting the same.

Act of 1820
repealed.

2. And be it enacted, That the act of assembly, passed at
December session eighteen hundred and twenty, to encourage the
destruction of crows in Kent county, be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed.

Passed Dec. 19,
1821.
May import
his slave Par-
ker.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 12.

An act to authorise John Aydolette, of Worcester county, to bring into
the State of Maryland, his negro slave named Parker.
Be it enacted, By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
John Aydolette, of Worcester county, be, and he is hereby autho-
rised to import and bring into this state, from the state of Virgi-
nia, and hold as a slave for life, his negro slave Parker; Provided,
That nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorise a
sale or disposition of said slave, within three years next succeeding
his importation aforesaid, otherwise than by bequest, in a course of
distribution, or by operation of law; and that the said negro slave
be registered in the clerk's office of Worcester county court, within
three months after his arrival in this state.

Passed Dec. 28,
1821.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 13.

An act for the relief of Edward Rider, of Baltimore county.
Whereas, Edward Rider, of Baltimore county, by his petition,
has set forth, that he is an emigrant from England, and that he has
purchased real property in Baltimore county, and received a con-
veyance therefor before he was naturalized; that he was ignorant of
the laws and constitution of the country at the time of his receiv-
ing the conveyance for said real property, as to the necessity of na-
turalization; that since he received the conveyance as aforesaid, he
has been naturalized in Baltimore county court, say in September
1821, and prays that a law may pass in his favor, declaring his title to
all lands conveyed to him prior to his having been naturalized, good
and valid; therefore,

Title made va-
lid.

Be it enacted, By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
any title to real property, acquired by the aforesaid Edward Rider,
whether such title be derived by gift, grant, purchase or devise, be,
and the same is hereby as amply and fully vested in the said Ed-
ward Rider, as if he, the said Edward Rider, had of been natural-
ized agreeably to the laws of the United States, before the acquir-

Proviso.

ing of such real property; Provided always, That nothing in this
act contained, shall, in any manner defeat, or affect any right, title
or claim, to the said property, or any part thereof, acquired, or pro-