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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.
1815.

Proviso.

same to the person or persons respectively entitled to receive
the same, and in case of the persons entitled to damages refusing
to receive the same when tendered, the lender shall be consider-
ed as good and sufficient to enable the commissioners to proceed
to open the street, as if the said damages had been received :
Provided always, nothing herein contained shall be so construed
as to prevent the ultimate payment of damages to such person
or persons as may, he justly entitled to receive the same, with-
out interest from the time of making such tender; and as a com-
pensation for his services, the said collector shall be entitled to
a commission on the whole amount to be by him collected, of
seven and an half per cent.

Passed Jan.
28. 1816.
Revived.

CHAPTER 202.
An act to revive and continue an act entitled, an act for the re-
lief of Henry Howard, (of John,) of Montgomery county.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That an act passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and fourteen, authorising and empowering Henry
Howard, (of John,) of Montgomery county to remove and
bring into this state a negro slave, within one year after the pas-
sage of said act, be and the same is hereby revived and contin-
ued in force until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
seventeen.

Passed Jan.
28, 1816.
Benefit of in-
solvent laws
granted.

CHAPTER 203.
An act for the relief of Lewis Michael of Frederick county.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the judges of Frederick county court, or any
one of them, are hereby authorised and directed to extend and
afford to Lewis Michael, of Frederick county, the full benefit of
the act of assembly, passed at November session, eighteen hun-
dred and five, entitled, an act for the relief of sundry insolvent
debtors, and the several supplements thereto, without requiring
of the said Lewis Michael to produce the assent of two thirds
of his creditors in amount.

Passed Jan.

28, 1816.
Benefit of
insolvent laws
extended.

CHAPTER 204.
An act for the relief of John Davis, of Talbot county.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the judges or any judge of Talbot county
'court, be, and they or any one of them are hereby authorised
and directed to extend to John Davis the benefit and relief of
the act of assembly passed at November session eighteen hun-
dred and five, entitled, an act for the benefit of sundry insolvent
debtors, and the supplements thereto, without compelling him
to produce the assent in writing of so many of his creditors as
have due to them the amount of two thirds of the debts due by
him at the time of his application for the benefit of this act, and
to extend and afford to the said John Davis, all the benefits, ad-
vantages and provisions of the aforesaid act and the supplements
thereto, in the same manner and upon the same terms and con-
ditions as if he had obtained the assent of two thirds of his cre-
ditors to his release under the same.