LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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addition to the time given to him by law to complete his

collections.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of
Baltimore county he, and they hereby are authorised at
any time before the first day of January next, to make

allowances to the said Robert Gorsuch by levying in his
favor or otherwise for all insolvencies which may appear

to them to he just and proper.

Dec. Sess.
1813.

Levy in his
favor for insol-
vencies.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said Robert Gorsuch, before he proceeds to
execute or distrain the property of any person chargea-
ble with or answerable for the payment of taxes, to
cause to be delivered to such person, or to the tenant oc-
cupying the premises taxed an account thereof, at least
ten days before levying any such execution or distress.

Distress.

CHAPTER 107.
An act for the benefit of Jacob Medtart, of Frederick
county.
WHEREAS it is represented to this General Assem-
bly, by the petition of Jacob Medtart of Frederick coun-
ty, that having an equitable claim to all that part of a
tract of land distinguished by lot No. 6, being part of
a tract of land called Long Acre, being part of Tasker's
Chance, lying in Frederick county, and the legal title be-
ing in John Coppenheffer, Mary Whitmore, Elizabeth
Whitmore, Michael Whitmore, Catherine Whitmore,
George Whitmore, Nicholas Whitmore, Susan Whit-
more and Margaret Whitmore, he filed a bill in the
chancery court of Alary land to procure to himself the
legal title, but through some inadvertance of his solici-
tor or the clerks, the bill originated, the business was
continued to final hearing, and a decree passed against
the defendants in the name of John Medtart Senr. in-
stead of Jacob Medtart, by reason whereof, his title to
the land aforesaid under the decree, is defective, and
praying the title in the tract of land mentioned in the
decree might be confirmed to him, in as full and ample a
manner as if the name of Jacob Medtart had been used
in the decree instead of John Medtart Senr. the prayer

Passed Jan.
26, 1814.
Preamble.

being reasonable; Therefore,
Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Jacob Medtart shall take title

under the decree of the chancellor of Mar) land of the
twenty-first day of February eighteen hundred and
three, in the case which appears to be John Medtart
Senr. against John Coppenheffer, Mary Whitmore, Eli-
zabeth Whitmore, Michael Whitmore, Catherine Whit-
more, George Whitmore, Nicholas Whitmore, Susan
Whitmore and Margaret Whitmore as fully and conclu-
sively to all legal and equitable intents and purposes
whatsoever as if the name of the said Jacob Medtart

He shall take

title.