LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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sembly of Maryland, That the marriage heretofore so-
lemnized between Conrad Holtzman late of Frederick
county and Eve Holtzman formerly Eve Derr of said
county but now of Washington county, be and the same
is hereby declared to be absolutely and to all intents and
purposes null and void, and the said Conrad Holtzman
and Eve Holtzman, his wife, are hereby declared to be
divorced from the bonds of matrimony: Provided that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to illegiti-
mate the children of the said Eve Holtzman born prior to
the passage of this act.

Dec. Sess.
1814.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 58.

A supplement to the act entitled an act to incorporate
certain persons in every church or Christian Congre-
gation in this state passed at November Session eigh-
teen hundred and two.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the. General Assem-
bly of Man/land, That the Christian Church now known
and acknowledged in this state under the denomination of
the Maryland Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, protected by the constitution and laws of the
same, shall have all the benefits and advantages arising
from all gifts or grants of property in the same way ana
to the same extent as they could have had at any time
under the provisions of the act to which this is a sup-

Passed Jan.
18, 1815.

Methodist ep-
iscopal church
privilege gran-
ted.

plement: Provided the said Christian Church shall in-
corporate themselves according to the directions of the
said act.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 59.

An act to authorise the transcribing of certain land re-
cords of Harford county court.
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by the petition of Henry Dorsey, clerk of Har-
ford county court, that some of the land record books of
said county, are in such a situation as to render the re-
cords therein unsafe; Therefore,

Passed Jan.
17, 1815.

Preamble.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of Har-
ford county, be, and they are hereby authorised and re-
quired to examine the land record books of said county
court; and if in their judgment, any of said books are
in such a situation, as to require transcribing, that then
it shall be lawful for the said justices to cause the same to
be transcribed and recorded by the clerk of said county
court, in good leather bound books, to which shall be
prefixed, fair and regular alphabets.

Records may
be transcribed

at the discreti-
on of the levy
court.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk shall
be allowed the sum of six cents per side, for transcribing
the said records, to be levied, collected and paid, as o-
ther county charges in said county are levied, collected
and paid; Provided, That if the levy court of Harford

Compensation
of the clerk.