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CHAPTER 40.
An act to appoint trustees for the sale of the property therein
mentioned, being part of the real estate of the late Henry
Willis deceased.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED By the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Alexander Warfield, Samuel Stevenson and
Daniel Zollickoffer be, and are hereby appointed trustees to
make sale of a tract of land called Wakefield, being part of a
tract of land called Stevenson's Garden, and a part of a tract
of land called Corwall, and a wood lot of thirty acres, being
part of a tract of land called York Company Defence, ly-
ing in Frederick county, being a part of the real estate of the
Reverend Henry Willis deceased, formerly of Pipe Creek in
Frederick county in this state, in such parts at such time and on
such terms as they the said trustees shall think most advanta-
geous for the parties concerned; and that the said trustees be-
fore they proceed to act by virtue of this appointment, shall
give bond to the State of Maryland, in such penalty and with
such security as shall be prescribed and approved by the chan-
cellor of this state for the faithful performance of the trust re-
posed in them.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall be
filed and recorded in the office of the chancery court of this
state a copy whereof under the seal of the court of chancery
shall be received in evidence in any court of law or equity in
this state.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any conveyance or
deed made by the trustees aforesaid, shall be and the same is
hereby declared to be valid and effectual to pass and convey all
the right, title and interest which the said Henry Willis had at
the time of his death, in and to the lands in such deed mention-
ed to the purchaser and purchasers of the same; which deed
shall be recorded among the land records of Frederick county
aforesaid, within the time prescribed for recording other deeds.
And whereas, Honer Willis, the mother of Ann Willis, the wi-
dow of the said deceased, have signed a petition praying that
a sale of the lands herein before mentioned should take place
as herein before provided, and have in their said petition re-
linquished all claims which they or either of them had in the
said land, or to any part of the proceeds thereof; Therefore,
4. BE IT ENACTED, That the money arising out of the sale
of said lands, in the hands of said trustees, after deducting the
expences of the sale of said lands, to be ascertained by the
chancellor, and after the payment of the debts due by the estate
of the said Henry Willis, and after repaying to the executors of
said Henry Willis, any monies which they may have advanced
for the said estate, or for the education and maintenance of the
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