LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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act passed in eighteen hundred and five, entitled "an
act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors and of the
several supplements thereto; Provided always that the

creditors or any creditor of the said John Landreth shall
have a right to take out a writ or writs of fieri facias or
of attachment against the goods, chattles, debts, credits,
lands or tenements of the said John Landreth in the same
manner as if the body of the said John Landreth had not
been taken in execution at the suit of such creditor or
creditors, and provided always that nothing in this act
contained shall be construed to release the property of the
said John Landreth from liability to his creditors or any
of them.

DEC. SESS.

1814.

CHAPTER 97.

An act for the benefit of Alexander Harson of Cecil
county.
WHEREAS Alexander Harson hath represented to
this general assembly, that not being a citizen of the
United States he purchased and obtained a deed of con-
veyance from a certain Hugh Fulton, for a tract of land
in Cecil county, as by the records of said county will
appear, and whereas his title to said real property is not
valid he being an alien at the time of the execution of the

Passed Jan. 20,

1815.
Preamble.

said deed of conveyance. Therefore,
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the title of the said Alexander Har-
son to the said real property, shall be and the same is
hereby made perfect and complete to all intents and pur-
poses, as if the said Alexander Harson had been natu-
ralized agreeably to the laws of the United States, before
the said purchase was made, any law of this state to the

Tide made va-
lid.

contrary notwithstanding; Provided always that nothing

in this act shall in any manner defeat or affect any right,
title or claim to the said property acquired or prosecuted
by any person or persons whatever before the passage
of this act; and provided also that the said Alexander
Harson shall become a naturalized citizen of the United
States, so soon is the same can be done agreeably to the
acts of congress in such, cases made and provided.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 98.

An act to lay out and open a road therein mentioned, in
Cecil County.

WHEREAS sundry respectable inhabitants of East
Nottingham township, Cecil county, by their petition
to this general assembly, pray that a road may be opened
and made at or near the south corner of William Moun-
tain's land, also a corner of Thomas Janney's land
where he now resides, and in the road leading from doc-
tor James Beard's, running thence on an easterly course
to said Mountain's mills, and passing on the south side of

Passed Jan.

30, 1815.

Preamble.