|
Dec Sess.
1815.
Provisos.
Children
dying.
Heirs at law
dying.
|
such commission as the chancellor may allow him or them for
their trouble in making the same; Provided, that before any
deed shall be executed and delivered by the said person or per-
sons to be appointed as aforesaid, for conveying the said lands
or any part thereof to the said purchaser or purchasers, the sale
thereof shall be confirmed by the chancellor; And provided also,
that the said person or persons so to be appointed, or such per-
son or persons as shall act under such appointment, shall be-
fore they proceed to act, enter into bond to the State of Mary-
land, with two sureties to be approved by the chancellor, in the
sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned for his or their
faithful performance of the said trust, and for their compliance
with the orders of the said chancellor in the premises; who
shall direct what proportion of the said purchase money re-
ceived for the said lands or such part of them as may he sold
aforesaid, shall be paid over to the widow of the deceased, in
compensation and lieu of her dower in the said lands, which said
bond shall be recorded among the records of the chancery
court; and upon such bond or an office copy thereof, suit or
suits may be instituted against the obligor or obligors therein, or
any of them for any breach or non compliance with the condi-
tion thereof, by any person interested therein.
S. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a deed or deeds exe-
cuted by the said person or persons, or such of them as shall
act, after the sale made by him or them of the said lands, or any
of them, shall have been confirmed by the chancellor, and the
purchase money paid, shall have the effect to convey to the pur-
chaser or purchasers all the right, title, claim and interest, both
at law and in equity, which he the said John Kenega, Junior, had
at the time of his death, in the lands mentioned in such deed or
deeds to have been thereby bargained and sold, and shall be a
bar to any claim of dower by the said widow of the said de-
ceased, and to the right or claim of his representatives, which
deed or deeds shall be acknowledged and recorded in the manner
and within the time limited by law, in the case of other deeds.
3 AMD BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the children
of the said John Kenaga, Junr. should die before the sale of the
said land, or before the proportion or share to which such child
or children may be entitled shall have been paid over, then the
part or proportion of the person so dying shall be invested for
the benefit and use of, or paid over to the legal representatives
of the person so dying, under the order and direction of the
chancellor.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the heirs at
law of the said John Kenega, Junr. shall die before he or she
attaining the age of twenty one years, in such case the propor-
tion of such heir or heirs of the purchase money, or any fund in
which it may be invested, shall be taken and considered as
land, and descend accordingly.
|
|
Passed Jan.
26, 1816.
Preamble.
|
CHAPTER 176.
An act to give effect to a compromise in certain actions of
ejectment in the circuit court of the United States for the
District of Maryland.
WHEREAS it has been represented to this General Assem-
bly, by the petition of Daniel Barnitz, Jacob Barnitz, George
Barnitz, John Barnitz, Daniel Lauman, and Barbara his wife,
|
