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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1823

Passed Jan.
12, 1824.
Place fixed.

CHAPTER 114.
A supplement to an act, entitled, An act to change the place of holding the elec-
tion the Third Election District in Cecil County, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
judges of the third election district in said county, are hereby autho-
rised and directed to hold the elections in said district either in a
building in Charles-Town, formerly occupied as a public jail, where
it is only authorised now to be held, or in any other building or
house they may procure for that purpose in Charles-Town, in said
county.

Passed Jan.
17, 1824.
Directions
given.

CHAPTER 115.

An act authorising certain powers of attorney therein described to be read in evi-
dence.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That two
powers of attorney each dated on the eleventh day of June, in the
year eighteen hundred and twenty-three, the one given by Francis
Peter Bruer, and the other by James Calixtus Michael dc Leritz,
to David Williamson, of the city of Baltimore, ratifying and confirm-
ing all the acts of the said David Williamson, in the sale of sundry
lands named and described in an act of the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-
one, entitled, an act relinquishing the right of the state to the lands
therein mentioned, and authorising a conveyance of the same, and
constituting and appointing the said David Williamson, their attor-
ney, to receive from Stevenson Archer, the purchase money for said
lands, the execution of which powers of attorney were on the same
day proved by the subscribing witnesses thereto, before M. P. M.
Emerigon, president of the civil tribunal of Bordeaux, to be read in
evidence in any court of law or equity in this state, without proof of
their execution, in the same manner, as they could be read in evidence
in virtue of the act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at
November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, entj|led, an
act directing what shall be good evidence to prove foreign and other
debts, and deeds and wills, and instruments of writing executed in
any of the United States, or in any foreign country, for allowing dis-
counts, and for repealing an act of assembly therein mentioned, if the
same had been executed in conformity with the provisions thereof.

Passed Jan.
23,1824.

CHAPTER 116.

An act to confirm an act passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-two, entitled, an act to alter and change all such parts of the Constitu-
tion and form of Government as relate to the oaths to be taken by the mem-
bers of the Senate and House of Delegates, and all other officers therein men-
tioned.

Confirma-
tion.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, enti-
tled, an act to alter and change all such parts of the constitution and
form of government as relate to the oaths to be taken by the mem-
bers of the Senate and House of Delegates, and all other officers
therein mentioned, shall be, and is hereby confirmed.

Passed Jan.
17, 1824.
Privilege
granted.

CHAPTER 117.

An additional supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate the stock-
holders in the Union Bank of Maryland.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
President and Directors of the Union Bank of Maryland, and their
successors, in addition to the powers and authorities vested in them