LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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and which have been discontinued by reason of the said ;
court not being held or adjourned according to law, shall
be revived and continued, and be as valid as if the said
court had not been discontinued, and shall stand and re-
main in the same state and condition as they would have
stood had the said court been regularly held and adjourn-
ed.

DEC. SESS.
1814.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all proceedings
and acts of the said court which have occurred since the
discontinuance thereof shall bo and they are hereby made
as valid and effective as if the said court had been held
and adjourned agreeably to law.

CHAPTER 14.

Acts made va-
lid.

An act to confirm and make valid the last will and testa-
ment of William MacCreery, late of Baltimore county
deceased.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the last will and testament of Wil-
liam MacCreery, late of Baltimore county, deceased,
bearing date on the twentieth day of November in the
year eighteen hundred and thirteen, and filed in the office
of the Register of Wills for Baltimore county, shall have
the same effect and operation, and every devise and be-
quest therein contained shall be as valid and available in
law, as if the said last will and testament had been attest-
ed and subscribed in the presence of the said William
MacCreery, by three credible witnesses; and in all other
respects had been executed and proved conformably to
the laws of this state relating to devises of lands and te-

Passed Jan.

5, 1815.

Will made va-
lid.

nements; Provided, that no right, title or estate which
any heir or heirs of the said William MacCreery may
have given, granted, transferred, assigned or conveyed to
any person or persons whatsoever before the passage of
this act, touching or concerning the estate left by the said
William MacCreery, shall be in any manner annulled or
affected by this act confirming the will of the said Willi-
am MacCreery.

CHAPTER 15.

Proviso.

An act to lay out and make public a road in Baltimore
county.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Thomas Johnson, Thomas Hillen,
Edward Johnson, Nicholas M. Bosley and Joshua Ste-
venson, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
and they or a majority of them are hereby authorised
and empowered to Jay out, open and make at the expence
of the petitioners, a road thirty feet in width, from the
Warren Manufactory now erecting on the Gunpowder
falls, to the York turnpike road, In the best practicable
direction to intersect said turnpike road the nature of the
ground will admit of, and with as little inconvenience to

Passed Jan.

6, 1815.

Commission-
ers— plot.