LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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which the toll gate on said Hunting Ridge Turnpike Road, may
or can be avoided or evaded, except roads condemned as public
roads by law, and used as such.

Dec. Ses. 1824

CHAPTER 87.
An act relating to the trustees of the poor and judges of the orphans
courts of the several counties in this State.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the poor of
the several counties in this state, or any three of them, to bind
out any negro or mulatto child or children under their care in the poor
house of said counties, as they are now authorised by law to bind
out, without requiring that such education shall be given to the
said child or children as masters are obliged to give to apprentices
bound by the several orphans courts of this state.
2. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the se-
veral orphans courts in this state to bind out any free negro or mu-
latto child or children that may come or be brought before them,
to be bound out, in the same manner and with the same provisions
as are required by the first section of this act, in the case of chil-
dren bound out by the trustees of the poor.

Passed Feb.
4, 1825.
Authority
given to trus-
tees of the
poor.

To orphans
court.

CHAPTER 88.
An act to authorise the orphans court of Frederick county to open and re-
view the account of the executors of Philip Juda, late of Frederick county
deceased, and to correct any error which may have been made in the set-
tlement of the said account.
Whereas, it has been represented to this general assembly, by
the petition of Thomas Oare and Mary his wife, that Philip Juda,
late of Frederick county, in the state of Maryland, deceased, did
by his last will and testament, bearing date the first day of Janu-
ary, eighteen hundred and three, among other bequests, give to the
poor of the county the sum of one hundred pounds current mo-
ney, to be paid at the discretion of the executors named in said
will, and it having been also represented to this general assembly,
that the executors named in the said will have never distributed the
said bequest of one hundred pounds current money, as directed by
the said testator, but have received a credit in their settlement with
the orphans court of Frederick county for that amount; Therefore,

Passed Feb.
4, 1825.

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland That the or-

phans court of Frederick county be, and they are hereby authori-
sed to open and review the account and settlement made with the said
court by the executors of Philip Juda, late of said county, deceas-
ed; and if the said court shall be satisfied that the said executors
are improperly credited with the sum of one hundred pounds cur-
rent money, then, and in that case they shall strike the said sum of
one hundred pounds from the credit side of said settlement, and
charge the executors aforesaid with the same, as so much assets in
their hands, to be disposed of agreeably to law.

Directed to
review, &c.

CHAPTER 89.

An act to prevent geese and swine from going at large in the village of Den-
ton, in Caroline county.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That so
much of the last section of the act of eighteen hundred and twen-

Passed Feb.
7, 1825.
Repeal of
former act.