LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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shall not at any one time hold or possess property, real,
personal or mixed, exceeding the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars per annum.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
and their successors, by the aforesaid name, shall forever
hereafter be able in capable in lew, to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend
and be defended, in all or in any courts of justice what-
soever; and also to have, make and use a common seal,
and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure, and
also to assemble and meet at such times and places as
they may agree upon, and to ordain, establish and put
in execution such by laws, ordinances and regulations, as
to them shall seem conducive to the interest of the said
company, and necessary to the good government and
orderly management thereof, the same not being contrary
to the laws of this state or of the United States; and
generally to do and execute all such acts, matters and
things, as to them shall or may appertain in virtue of this
act.

DEC. SESS.
1814.

Powers, pri-
vileges &c.

CHAPTER 74.

An act for the benefit of Sarah Payne, widow of John
Payne, late of Alleghany county deceased.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly
by the petition of Sarah Payne of Alleghany county,
widow of the said John Payne, that her late husband
died intestate leaving your petitioner and five small
childen, entitled to one seventh part of a tract of land
called Walnut Bottom, containing seven acres of land
more or less, which said property is at present unproduc-
tive, and that a sale of the same will greatly promote the
interest of your petitioner and her infant children, she
therefore prays that the said land may be sold on such
terms and conditions as the legislature may direct.
Therefore,

Passed Jan.

25, 1815.
Preamble.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Sarah Payne, widow of John Payne,
deceased, be, and she is hereby authorised, upon giving
such bond and security to the state of Maryland to be
approved of by the orphans' court of Allegany county
as is hereinafter directed, to expose to public sale all that
part of a tract of land aforesaid of which the said John
Payne died seized in Allegheny county, after giving pub-
lic notice thereof for four weeks by, an advertisement in
one of the papers in Cumberland.

May dispose
of land.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustee
upon complying with the requisite of this act and upon
the receipt of the whole of the purchase money for the
premises aforesaid, shall by a good and sufficient deed,
transfer and convey to the purchaser or purchasers of the
'premises aforesaid; and that the proceeds of the same
when collected by the said trustee, hall (under the direc-

Deed — pro-
ceeds of sale.