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Dec. Sess.
1813.
Repungant
acts repealed.
Proviso.
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lect to he recovered as other fines are directed to be re-
covered by this act.
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and af-
ter the first Monday of April next, all and every act or
acts, or part of any art or acts of assembly, and every
clause and section thereof which are repugnant to and
inconsistent with the provisions of this act be, and the
same are hereby repealed. Provided nevertheless, That
nothing herein contained shall be construed or taken to
affect any private act or acts of assembly granted upon
the application of any particular individual, or the act of
assembly passed at October session, in the year one thou-
sand seven hundred and fifty three, entitled, an act for
repairing the public roads in this province, or any actor
acts of assembly for the building or repairing of any
bridge or bridges that are built or maintained at the pub-
lic or county charge.
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Passed Jan.
17, 1814.
Preamble.
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CHAPTER 75.
An act for the relief of William Patterson, William
Smith, William Cooke and others.
WHEREAS William Patterson, Thomas Hollings-
worth, Samuel Hollingsworth, Edward Pannell, George
Brown, William Smith, James A. Buchanan, Samuel
Smith, Hercnies Courtnay, Robert Oliver, (for himself
and the estate of John O'Donnell) Archibald Stewart,
John Hollins, Alexender M'Kim, James Hindman, Wil-
liam Cooke, Mark Pringle, Samuel Owens, (executor of
Jeremiah Yellott,) Elizabeth Dall, John E. Howard, and
James Priestley, have by their petition to this General
Assembly set forth, that on or about the seventh day of
January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine,
the petitioners and others purchased a certain tenement
and lot in St. Pauls lane in the city of Baltimore, known
and distinguished by the name of number fifteen, for the
purpose of establishing an academy in said city, under
the direction of a certain James Priestley, which acade-
my is no longer carried on in consequence of the remov-
al of the said James Priestley out of the state of Mary-
land; that several of those originally interested in the
purchase of the said tenement and lot have sold out their
interests therein to the petitioners who are now the sole
proprietors thereof, and that John O'Donnell, Jamas
Dall and Jeremiah Yellott who were original proprietors
are since dead, and their interest in said property has
descended to their representatives, some of whom are
infants, and that considerable sums are necessary to be
expended to keep the said property which is no longer
wanted for the purposes for which it was originally pur-
chased, and that it will not rent for the interest of the
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