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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.

1815

Proceedings.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the orphan's court of
Worcester county, and the trustee to he appointed by virtue
hereof, shall regulate their proceedings in the premises accor-
ding to the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement,
and every act and proceeding to be had or done in pursuance
hereof, shall have the same effect and validity as if done or ex-
ecuted under the law to which this is a supplement.

Passed Dec.

19; 1815.
Preamble.

When to be
held.

To what
time adjourn-
ed.

Process.

CHAPTER 12.

An act to alter the times of holding the county courts in
Frederick and Washington Counties.
WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly,
that the times of holding the county courts of Frederick and
Washington counties are found inconvenient; Therefore.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General. Assembly of
Maryland, That the county courts of Frederick county shall
hereafter commence and be held on the first Monday in March,
in each year, instead of the first Monday of February, and on
the fourth Monday in October, instead of the first Monday in
August, and that the county court of Washington county shall
hereafter commence and be held on the third Monday in No-
vember, instead of the fourth Monday in October.
£ 2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county court of
Frederick county which, now stands adjourned to the first
Monday in February next, shall be and is hereby adjourned to
the first Monday in March next.
3 AND BE IT ENACTED, That all process whatsoever
now issued, or that may be issued in the county court of Fred-
erick, returnable to the said court of the said county heretofore
adjourned to the first Monday in February next, or to any par-
ticular day or days in the first and succeeding weeks shall be
returnable and returned, to the first Monday in March next or
to the corresponding days in the first and second week succeed-
ing the same respectively, and all causes and proceedings civil
and criminal, returnable to and depending before the said coun-
ty court of Frederick county, at the time of its last adjourn-
ment shall be returnable and continued to the first Monday in
March next, in the same manner as if the said causes pleas and
proceedings had been regularly continued to the said time ap-
pointed by the act for holding the county court of Frederick
county.

Passed Dec.

19, 1815.

Commis-
sioners—plot.

CHAPTER 13.

An act to lay out a town to be called " Bruce Ville," in Fred-
erick County.
. Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John A. Scott, John Murphy, Senr. James
Horner, Upton S. Reid, John Scott, William Emmil and Ro-
bert L Annan be, and they are hereby appointed commission-
ers, who shall on or before the first day of May next meet at
Bruce-Ville, and having so met the said commissioners or any
two of them, shall have power and authority to direct the sur-
veyor of Frederick county, or any person they may think prop-
er to appoint, to survey the said town and several lots therein,
and make out an exact plot thereof, and shall ascertain and
limit the extent of the lots streets and lanes thereof, most
agreeably to their original location, according to the best evi-