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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.
1814

Proceeds
sale—how
be vested— un-
der whose di-
rection, &c.

4. AND BE IT EXACTED, That the money ari-
sing from the sale; aforesaid, which may belong to the
said children, shall be invested and employed by their
guardian or guardians, under the authority and direc-
tion of said court, hi such stocks or funds as the said
court may from time to time approve and direct, the
more effectually to secure and promote the interest of
said children, until they shall be of lawful age to receive
and have the disposal thereof, at which times the same
shall he transferred and paid over to them in their respec-

Proviso.

tive proportions; Provided, That upon the event of the
death of either of said children, before they shall have
attained such ape, their share or part of the funds ari-
sing from the sale aforesaid shall pass or descend in such
manner as their interest in the said lot would have done,
had not this law been passed.

CHAPTER 32.

Passed Jan.
13, 1815.

Preamble.

An act to make valid a deed therein mentioned.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assem-
bly by the petition of Susan Richardson of Caroline coun-
ty, widow of John Richardson and guardian to Eliza-
beth Richardson, Mary Ann Richardson, Rebecca Ri-
chardson, Anna Richardson and William Richardson,
children of the said John Richardson, deceased, that
William Councel did, on the twenty ninth day of Au-
gust, in the year eighteen hundred and nine, execute a
deed of bargain and sale for a lot of ground in the vil-
lage of Denton, to the above named John Richardson, and
that deed by mistake had not been recorded as the law
directs, and that the said William Council died very soon
after this transaction, which has prevented a new deed
from being executed; Therefore,

Deed being
recorded shall
be valid.

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That it shall be lawful for the clerk of
Caroline county to record the said .deed herein before
mentioned, among the land records of said county, at any
time within six months from the passage of this act; and
that said deed when so recorded shall be good and valid
to pass all the title to said lot of ground to the heirs of
John Richardson aforesaid, as if said deed had been re-
corded as the law of this state requires.

Passed Jan.
13, 1815.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 33.

An act for the benefit of James Hopkins of Queen Ann's
county.
WHEREAS from the petition and representations of
James Hopkins of Queen Ann's county, it appears to
this general assembly, that he is equitably entitled to the
benefit of certain payments and allowances heretofore
made and entered on two certificates of escheat, bearing
date respectively, the twenty eighth day of November in
the year eighteen hundred and eight and made and re-