54

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.
1815.

Proviso.

Maryland, That the chancery court for the State of Maryland
shall be, and hereby is invested with full power and autho-
rity on application by or on behalf of the infant heirs at law of
Benjamin Ricaud, late of Baltimore county deceased, to decree
and order a sale and conveyance to the purchasers thereof, of
all that part of the said deceased's real estate which may be sit-
uate and lying in Baltimore city and county, to appoint a trus-
tee or trustees for that purpose, prescribe the manner and terms
of sale, make allowance to the widow for her dower, divide
the nett proceeds of said fairs amongst said children, and gen-
erally to exercise such jurisdiction in the premises as said court
now may and doth in cases where sales are prayed for the purpose
of making division or distribution under the twelfth section of t h e
act of 1785, chapter 72. entitled, an act for enlarging the power
of the high court of chancery; Provided always, AND BE
IT ENACTED, That before any decree shall he made for
the sale of said property before mentioned, the chancellor shall
be satisfied by such proof as he may deem sufficient, that such
sale will be for the advantage of said children.

Passed Jan.
5, 1816.

Slaves may
be removed.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 54.

An act to authorise the removal of certain slaves therein men
tioned.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Richard Ridgely Senr. of Anne-Arundel
county, or the widow or any guardian hereafter to be appointed
or the administrators of Richard Ridgely, Junr. deceased, or
any or either of them be, and are hereby authorised and per-
mitted to bring away and remove from the State of Kentucky,
to any county in the State of Maryland, all or any part of the
negroes slaves carried out by Richard Ridgely, Junr. in his life
time, to the State of Kentucky, and that the removal of the
said slaves and their issue and bringing them into the State of
Maryland, shall not be deemed or taken or in any manner be
construed or operate to entitle them to freedom; and that the
said slaves and their issue shall be held and owned as if they
hod never been removed from the State of Maryland; Provid-
ed nevertheless, that the said Richard Ridgely, Senr. or such
other person or persons who shall remove, or cause to be re-
moved the said negro slaves, together with their increase into
the State of Maryland, shall return to the clerk of the county
into which the said negroes and their issue may hereafter be re-
moved, within six weeks after their removal and arrival into
this state, a list of the said negroes together with their issue,
with an affidavit to the same annexed, to be recorded among
the records of the said county court, that the said negro slaves
were carried and removed to the State of Kentucky by Rich-
ard Ridgely, Junr. from the State of Maryland, and that those
born since their removal to Kentucky are descended from, and
the issue of some of the negroes originally removed by the
said Richard Ridgely Junr.

Passed Jan.
5, 1816.

CHAPTER 55.

An act to make valid a deed therein mentioned.
WHEREAS, It appears that a certain William Davis, one
of the constables of Worcester county, by virtue of a writ of
fieri facias to him directed, did expose to public sale all the