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SAMUEL STEVENS, JR. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1822

Passed Jan.
25, 1823
Repeal.

CHAPTER 107.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act concerning the Chancery
Court.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That so much
of the act to which this is a supplement, passed at the last session,
which requires the chief judge of the third judicial district to act in
the recess of the court or out of court, in cases in which the chancel-
lor may have been counsel, or have given his opinion, and on that
account may conceive that he cannot conscientiously act thereon, and
shall so certify in writing to the said chief judge, be, and the same
is hereby repealed.

Passed Jan.
21, 1823.

Authorised.

CHAPTER 108.

An act for the benefit of Mary Chapman, administratrix of Henry H.
Chapman.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Mary
Chapman, who hath obtained from the orphans courts of the county
of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and of Charles county,
in this' state, letters of administration on the personal estate of her
deceased husband, Henry H. Chapman, be, and she is hereby author-
ised and empowered to settle and pass, in the orphans court of the
county of Washington, in the district of Columbia, all such accounts.
touching the personal estate of the said Henry H. Chapman, as she
is now bound by law to pass and settle in the orphans court of
Charles county; and the said accounts when passed as aforesaid,
shall have the same effect and credit in this state, as if passed in the
orphans court of Charles county; and it shall not be necessary for
her to settle and pas3 any other or further accounts, or make any
other returns to the said orphans court of Charles county; but all
such accounts and returns may henceforward be made to, and passed
by the orphans court of the county of Washington, in the District

Proviso.

of Columbia: Provided, that if there is now in the hands of the said
administratrix any property belonging to the said estate, an invento-
ry of which she ought to have returned to the orphans' court of
Charles county, or if any such property should hereafter come to
her hands, she shall be as much bound to return an inventory of the
same to the orphans court of Charles county, as she would have been
if this law had not passed.

Passed Jan.
, 1823.

Preamble.

Commission-
ers, powers,

CHAPTER 109.

An act to ascertain and establish the divisional line between Anne-A-
rundel and Calvert counties.
WHEREAS, the line of division between Anne-Arundel and Cal-
vert counties, is not well ascertained, by reason whereof inconve-
niences have arisen; therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
for fixing and ascertaining the said divisional line the following per-
sons be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to act as
commissioners, viz. for Anne-Arundel county, Virgil Maxey and
James Tongue, for Calvert county, Thomas H. Wilkinson and Rich-
ard Ireland, and for Baltimore county, Doct, William Howard,
which said commissioners or a major part of them, shall be, and they
arc hereby authorised and required, to meet at some place to be a-
greed on by themselves, near the borders of said counties, and call
before them, by summons to be issued by them, and directed to the
sheriff of the county, all persons who may be deemed proper to give