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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1823.

as if the said Esmenard had been a citizen of the United States, at
the period of receiving from Solomon Etting and Joseph Patterson,
respectively, the conveyances so as aforesaid made, or intended to
have been made by them to the aforesaid John B. Esmenard, and the
prayer of the petitioner appearing to this General Assembly to be rea-
sonable;—Therefore,

Deed con-
firmed.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
deeds from Solomon Etting and Joseph Patterson, to John B. Es-
menard, and the deed of trust executed by John B. Esmenard, late of
the city of Baltimore, but now of Pelissanne, in the kingdom of
France, to Charles Delinotte, of the aforesaid City of Baltimore, and
recorded among the land records of Baltimore county shall be con-
strued and held as available in law and equity, as if the said Esme-
nard had been a citizen of the United States at the periods of the
execution of the said deeds of and for the property and premises
mentioned in said deeds; Provided, that nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to effect or impair the right of any person or per-
sons to said property, or any part thereof acquired before the passage
of this act.

Passed Feb.
24, 1824.
Compensa-
tion to super-
intendent.

CHAPTER 179.

A supplement to an act, entitled, an act relating to public roads, passed at No-
vember session, 1794.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
levy court of Montgomery county, be, and they are hereby authori-
sed to pay to the supervisors appointed under the law above recited
for each day's actual superintendence of a number of hands exceed-
ing ten, the sum of one dollar fifty cents, and for the superintendence
of a number of hands less than ten, the sum of one dollar for each day.

Passed Feb.
24, 1824.
Procecd-
ings with
goods under
execution in
case of remo-
val of sheriff.

CHAPTER 180.

A supplement to the act, entitled, an act relating to sheriffs and for other purpo-
ses, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirteen.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
if any sheriff or coroner hath taken, or shall take in execution any
goods or chatties, lands or tenements under and by virtue of any
writ of execution sued out of any court within this state, and hath
returned or shall return such writ to the court whence it issued,
alledging therein that the goods or chattles, lands or tenements so
taken in execution remain in his possession or custody unsold for
the want of buyers, or by reason of any other legal impediment, and
if any such sheriff or coroner after having made return shall remove
out of the county for and within which ha thus acted as sheriff or co-
roner without having effected a sale of the goods or chatties, lands or
tenements so as aforesaid remaining in his possession then in every
such event the same proceedings may be had to complete such pro-
cess and to effect the sale of the goods or chatties, lands or tene-
ments bo remaining unsold as are authorised and directed by the act
to which this is a supplement, in the event of the death of any sheriff
or coroner who hath returned or shall return that any goods or chat-
ties lands or tenements taken by him in execution remain unsold,
and who hath died or shall die without having effected a sale thereof.

Fees paya-
ble to.

2. And be it enacted, That if any such sheriff or coroner who shall
have thus returned, or shall hereafter return that any goods or chat-
ties, lands or tenements, by him taken in execution remain unsold in
his possession, hath removed, or shall remove out of the county