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of such election, and the proceedings thereof shall be recorded
under their direction; and every commissioner before he shall
proceed to open an election, shall take an oath, or affirmation,
that he will faithfully and impartially permit every person to
vote at such election who shall be qualified to vote tor a com-
missioner of the said town, according to the directions of this
act, and that he will not suffer any person to vote at such elec-
tion who shall not in his judgment be qualified to vote as afore-
said.
15 AND BE IT ENACTED, That the boundaries of
said town for the purpose of taxation and all other matters and
things relating thereto, as hereby incorporated shall be the
same as laid down on the plat made out by the commissioners
heretofore appointed by the legislature of this state, to lay out
and fix the boundaries of said town and the several additions
thereto, and recorded amongst the land records of Alleghany
county.
CHAPTER 137.
An act authorising Henry S. Yates of Charles County to bring
sundry Negroes into this State.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be lawful for Henry S. Yates of
Charles county, to bring into this state sundry negroes and
the issue of the same, which in the year eighteen hundred and
fourteen he removed to the State of Kentucky, and such ne-
groes when so brought, into this state, to hold as slaves in the
same manner as he could have done if they had not been re-
moved; Provided, that the said negroes when removed agreea-
bly to the provisions of this act shall be recorded in the records
of the county court, with an affidavit that they are the same
negroes which were removed by the said Yates to Kentucky,
in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, and the issue of the
same, which affidavit so recorded shall be legal evidence of
this fact for all purposes whatsoever.
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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Passed Jan.
24, 1816.
May import
negroes.
Proviso.
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CHAPTER 133.
An act to authorise Nathaniel Cacy of Queen Ann's County to
sell the lands therein mentioned.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Nathaniel Cacy be, and he is hereby autho-
rised to sell and dispose of all such tracts or parcels of land
lying and being in Queen Ann's county, called Low's Arcadia
and White Marsh, as would at his death fall to his daughters
Sarah Ann Cacy and Catharine Matilda Cacy, in the right of
their mother, and to apply the proceeds thereof in such man-
ner for the benefit of said Sarah Ann Cacy and Catharine Ma-
tilda Cacy, as the orphan's court of Queen Ann's county may
direct.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any conveyance or
deed made by Nathaniel Cacy pursuant to the directions of the
orphan's court of Queen Ann's county, shall be and is hereby-
declared to be valid and effectual, to pass and convey all the
right title and interest of the said Sarah Ann Cacy and Catha-
rine Matilda Cacy, in and to all the lands aforesaid to the pur-
chiser or purchasers of the same.
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Passed Jan.
24, 1816.
May sell.
Deed.
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