SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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secuted by any person or persons whatsoever, before the passage

of this act.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

CHAPTER 14.

An act relinquishing the right of the state to the lands therein men-
tioned, and authorising a conveyance of the same.
Whereas, It is represented to this general assembly by David
Williamson, Attorney for Nicholas Francis Peter Bence and James
Calixtus Michael De Leyritz, that Angus Greme, of Harford
county, purchased in trust for Col. John Gimat and in the event of
his death, in trust for his wife, Madam Bence Gimat, and her heirs,
the tracts of land herein after mentioned; that the said Col. John
Gimat died, leaving his widow Bence Gimat, who has since depart-
ed this life, leaving the said Nicholas Francis Peter Bence and
James Calixtus Michael De Leyritz, her heirs at law; that the said
Angus Greme, did, in the year eighteen hundred, execute a lease of
the said lands to the said Bence and Leyritz, for ninety nine years,
renewable forever; that the said lands were purchased by the said
Angus Greme, with the money arising from a certificate issued from
the treasury of the United States, to the said Col. Gimat, for his
pay and emoluments, as an officer of the French army in the Ame-
rican service, during the revolutionary war; that the said Col. Gi-
mat and Bence Gimat, were, and the said Nicholas F. P. Bence
and James C. M. De Leyritz, are foreigners never naturalized—by
reason whereof their title to the said lands was, and is liable to be
vested in the state upon office found; and the said David William-
son, acting as the attorney aforesaid, hath contracted to sell the said
lands, and hath prayed that the state would relinquish its title to
the said lands; and whereas this general assembly is willing to re-
linquish its right to the said lands; Therefore,

Passed Dec. 21,
1821.
Preamble.

Sec. 1. BE it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
David Williamson, shall and may, and he is hereby authorised
and fully empowered, to convey by a deed or deeds to be executed,
acknowledged and recorded according to law, to any person or per-
sons, in fee simple, the following lands, to wit: Rough Stone, con-
taining two hundred acres, Maiden's Bower Secured, and Paca's
Industry, containing together, by estimation, four hundred and sixty
five acres; Rumsey's Neighbor, containing sixty-six and an half
acres, and two tracts called Isaac's Delight, the one containing
thirty-five acres, the other containing forty-six acres, situate, lying
and being on Deer Creek, in Harford county.

May convey.

2. And be it further enacted, That the purchaser or pur-
chasers, to whom the said conveyance or conveyances shall be
made, and his, her or their heirs, shall and may have, hold, occu-
py, possess and enjoy the said lands, and every part thereof, so to
he conveyed to them, in as full, ample and perfect a manner, as if
the said David Williamson had, or could claim at the time of the
passage of this act, the legal estate in fee simple, in and to the
aforegoing lauds, and every part thereof; and that the purchaser
or purchasers aforesaid, may, and they are hereby authorised to
execute to the said David Williamson, his heirs and assigns, a
mortgage or mortgages of the said lands, to secure the payment of
the purchase money for which the same may be sold; and the said
mortgage or mortgages, shall, and are hereby declared to be intend-

Purchasers
may hold, &c.