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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1822

Passed Jan.
24, 1823.
Compromise.

CHAPTER 70.

A supplement to the act entitled, An act to provide for building a bridge
over Antieatum Creek, in Washington county.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
levy court of Washington county shall not be required to carry into
effect the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, unless
upon such compromise or arrangement with the Boonsborough
Turnpike Road Company as they in their discretion may deem just
and proper.

Passed Feb
6, 1823.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 71.

An act to provide for the completion of certain records of the Orphans'
Court of Caroline County.
WHEREAS, It is represented to this general assembly by the peti-
tion of George A. Smith, register of wills of Caroline county, that
sundry wills, inventories, lists of separate and desperate debts, ac-
counts of sales, administration accounts, distributions of estates,
orders for and distributions of negroes, and returns of sales of ne-
groes, guardians bonds, valuations of the real estates of orphans,
accounts of guardians, releases or acquittances to executors, admi-
nistrators and guardians, orders of reference and indentures of ap-
prenticeship, were left unrecorded by John Young, late register of
wills of Caroline county aforesaid, but which by law, were required
to be recorded by him; and that for the public convenience and a
greater facility in transacting the business of his office, he the said
George A. Smith hath, since his appointment to his office of register
of wills aforesaid, proceeded to record the same, and hath actually
completed the whole records thereof, except the accounts of sales
aforesaid; and it being right and proper that a fair and reasonable
compensation should be paid to the said George A. Smith, for the
completion of the said records out of the estate of the said John
Young, or by his securities in his official bond, and the assent as well
of Elijah Satterfield, the administrator of the said John Young, as
of Abraham Griffith, the surviving security of the said John Young,
in his said office bond, having been obtained and signified in writing
to this general assembly, to the passage of a law providing for pay-
ment of such fair and reasonable compensation to the said George
A. Smith.

Three ref-
ferees.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
three judicious men shall be mutually chosen and appointed by the
said George A Smith, Elijah Satterfield, administrator of John
Young and Abraham Griffith, security as aforesaid, or the executors
or administrators respectively, of the said George A. Smith and
Abraham Griffith, on the administration de bonis non of the said John
Young, as the case may be, upon the death of any of the said par-
ties, which three persons so as aforesaid appointed and chosen, shall
view and examine the aforesaid records made and completed as afore-
said by the said George A. Smith, and shall adjudge and award such
sum of money as they or a majority of them shall think a fair and
reasonable compensation for the labor of completing the said re-
cords, to be paid to the said George A. Smith, his executors, admi-
nistrators or assigns, out of the estate of the said John Young, or by
his securities in his said office bond; and they or a majority of them,
shall return an award or certificate of their ascertainment of such
sum of money, under their hands and seals to the orphan's court of
Caroline county as soon as conveniently may be.