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SAMUEL STEVENS, JR. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

Dec. Ses. 1822
Bond.

2. And be it enacted, That the said George Hoffman, shall enter
into bond, with sufficient security to the state of Maryland, in such
penalty as the orphans' court of Frederick county shall approve, for
the faithful performance of his trust, which bond shall be filed in
the register of wills office for the said county.

Passed J la.
14, 1823

Preamble.

CHAPTER 47.

An act to authorise the Levy Court of St. Mary's County to assess
a sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned.
WHEREAS, Theophilus Davis of St Mary's county by his petition
to this general assembly, has set forth that he has entirely lost the
sight of one eye, and that his wife has had one leg amputated, since
which she has become very sickly, and that his daughter Margaret
aged twelve years is an idiot and dumb, constantly requiring the at-
tention of some grown person to keep her from committing acts of
violence, in consideration of which visitation of providence the said
Theophilus Davis prays that a law may pass authorising the levy
court of Saint Mary's county to assess and levy a sum of money to
relieve his distressed condition; Therefore,

Levy $30.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the jus-
tices of the levy court of Saint Mary's county be, and they are here-
by directed and empowered, at their levy courts annually, to levy on
the assessable property of said county, thirty dollars, for the support
and maintenance of the idiot daughter of Theophilus Davis, and
that the same be collected and paid annually to the aforesaid The-
ophilus Davis, by the collector of said county, agreeably to the or-
der of the levy court aforesaid.

Passed Jan.
11, 1821.

Case of
commission-
ers death.

CHAPTER 48.

A supplement to the act entitled, An act to amend and reduce into
one system the laws to direct descents.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, in case a majority of
the commissioners appointed by the court of chancery or by any
county court for the purpose of dividing real estate in the manner
provided for by the act to which this is a supplement, shall die before
having completed their trust, it shall and may be lawful for the chan-
cellor or the county court by whom the commission shall have been
awarded, on the application by petition in writing of any heir, re-
presentative, purchaser, or other party interested, to appoint in the
place of such deceased commissioners the same number of other dis-
creet and sensible men, for the purpose of completing said trust,
and every such petition shall set forth the substance of the first ap-
plication, the issuing of the commission, the progress which the
commissioners shall have made towards completing their trust, and
the decease of a majority of the commissioners.

Another
commission.

2. And be it enacted, That the register in chancery or the clerk of
the county court as the case may be, shal thereupon issue another
commission directed to the surviving commissioner or commissioners
appointed under the act to which this is a supplement, and to the
commissioners appointed by virtue of this act, reciting in sub-
stance the facts set forth in said petition, and authorising and requir-
ing the said commissioners, or the major part of them, forthwith to
proceed to the completion of the said trust, and directing them to
return the said second commission together with a certificate of their
proceedings annexed to the same with all convenient speed; and the