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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Condemned
--appraisment.
Proviso.
Trustee.
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mote country so that he cannot be applied to for the purchase of
his said interest; and that two of the heirs of the said John
O'Donnell are minors, whereupon it is reasonable to grant the
prayer of the said petition.—Therefore,
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the. General Assembly of
Maryland, That the said lot he, and is hereby condemned for
the purposes aforesaid; and that Colonel John Eager Howard,
Solomon Etting and George Grundy, Esquires, be, and they
are hereby appointed to appraise as well the interest of the
said John Mason Forster, as also the interest of the said heirs
of John O'Donnell in the said lot, the amount of which appraise-
ments shall be paid by the said Baltimore Exchange Company
to the said John Mason Forster, or his agent, and to the said
heirs of John O'Donnell respectively. And that the said pay
ment shall be made or tendered, in specie, or in the notes of
some incorporated bank in the city of Baltimore, before the
said Exchange Company shall take possession of the said lot for
the purpose of converting it into a street, which payments or
tender as far as concerns the heirs of the said John O'Donnell,
may be made to his executors or the survivor of them, and as
far as concerns the said John Mason Forster to William
Gwynn, Esquire, of the city of Baltimore, who was formerly
chosen by the said Forster as his guardian, and is hereby au-
thorised and empowered to receive the said payment as agent
for the said John Mason Forster; and on making the said pay-
ment or tender as the case may be. and not otherwise, the said
Exchange company shall be, and is hereby authorised and cm-
powered to take possession of the said lot, and convert it into a,
public street as atari-said, and it limit forever after remain a pub-
lic street of the city of Baltimore; Provided always, that if the
said Exchange company shall not on or before the first day of
May next, declare to the said commissioners their intention to
avail themselves of the benefits of this act, and request them to
proceed to the said valuation, then tins act shall be wholly
void.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said William
Gwynn, shall be, and he is hereby appointed agent and trustee
for the said John Mason Forster, and such other person or per-
sons as in case of his death, and if this act hud not passed
would be entitled to the said lot, with power to him the said
William Gwynn, his executors and administrators, and it is
hereby declared to be his and their duty to invest the said sum
of money so to be paid for the said lot forthwith in bank stock
of some incorporated bank or banks in the city of Baltimore,
or in stock of the United States, on the best terms, and the di-
vidends thereon, and the accumulations thereof, from time to
time as they become due, to receive and invest in manner a-
foresaid for the use and benefit of the said Forster, and of the
persons who may or would be entitled as aforesaid, until the
said stock and accumulations thereof shall be transferred and
paid over to the said John Mason Forster, or other person or
persons entitled as aforesaid, or his, or their agent or agents
lawfully authorised.
AND WHEREAS by the will of Bridget Tull exhibited to
this Legislature, and under which the said John Mason Forster
claims the said lot, it is to go over to other persons in case of
his death under the age of twenty-five years, and it appears that
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