LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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otherwise any real property which she may thereafter ac-
quire by purchase, in the same manner as she might, or
could have done if she had been a natural born citizen of

this state; Provided nevertheless, that the said Elizabeth
Reid shall become a naturalized citizen of the United
States so soon as the same can be effected according to
the laws thereof.

DEC.SESS.

1814.
Proviso.

CHAPTER 45.
An act relative to the unfinished records of Frederick

county.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Fre-
derick county, shall he and they are hereby authorised
and directed to contract with some suitable person, to

make, enter and complete the records in the office of the M
clerk of Frederick county, remaining unfinished at the
time of the death of the late clerk, William Ritchie, de-
ceased, so that the annual expence thereof, shall not ex-
ceed the sum of three hundred dollars to be levied annu-
ally, for a term not exceeding three years, with other
county assessments, and the records so made, shall be
as valid and effectual, as if the same had been completed
in the life time of the said William Ritchie, whose heirs,
representatives and securities are hereby released from
their! liability on his office bond, so far as the condition
thereof relates to the making, entering and completing,
the records aforesaid.

Passed Jan. 16,
1815.
Records to be
completed——
sum to be levi-
ed— securities
on office bond

released.

CHAPTER 44.

An act for the benefit of the heirs of George N. Ford,
late of Charles county, deceased.
WHEREAS Mary Ford of Charles county, widow

and administratrix of George N. Ford, late of said coun-

ty, deceased, by her petition to this general assembly,
hath set forth that the said George N. Ford, departed this
life some time in the month of March in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, intestate,
leaving a small real estate entirely unproductive, which
he had some short time before purchased, but had not paid
for the same, lying in Anne Arundel county and which
since his death, hath descended to his children, Martha
Young Ford, Mary Hepseba Ford and Josias B. Ford,
who are minors, under the age of twenty one years ;
that the money due for the said land independent of his
other debts, exceeds the amount of the personal proper-
ty left by the said deceased; that the said land is entire-
ly destitute of buildings or improvements of any kind
and yields no annual income whatever, but is subject
to expense to its owners, on account of public taxes and
county assessment; that it will be more beneficial to the
heirs of the said deceased to preserve so much of the
personal estate as can be saved from the payment of the

Passed Jan. 16,

1815.
Preamble.