CHARLES RIDGELY, (OF HAMPT.) ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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it can be safely done, or to purchase and procure another lot or
piece of ground in a convenient and proper situation for the same,
and the same when built or established, shall be subjected to the
controul, management and direction, of said president and visi-
tors, in the same manner as the hospital aforesaid.
8. Provided always and be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained shall in any manner defeat or affect the lease of the
said hospital and premises, heretofore made and granted by the
mayor and city council of the city of Baltimore to the said Colin
Mackenzie and James Smyth, but the same shall be and remain
in full force and effect for the residue, of the term, and the said
Colin Mackenzie and James Smyth may have, use, occupy, pos-
sess and enjoy, all the rights, privileges and advantages, under
said lease, in as full and ample manner as if this act had not
been passed; And provided also, that the said president and visi-
tors, hereby appointed, and their successors, shall have, use, ex-
ercise, possess and enjoy, all the rights, powers and privileges,
reserved in the said lease, in as full and ample manner as the
mayor and city council might or could have done: And provided
also, that the right is reserved to the state to regulate by law
the said hospital, and to alter and change this charter whenever
it may seem right to the. legislature to do so.

Dec. Ses. 1816

Lease to C.
Mackenzie and
J. Smyth not
to be affected.

Provisos.

CHAPTER 157.

An act for the relief of Mary E. Berrett, of Baltimore
County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the deeds which were executed by Mary E. Berrett, and
Joseph S. Berrett her husband, (upon their marriage) to John
Oliver of the city of Baltimore, and after their marriage to the
said John Oliver and Sarah Chew O'Donnell, and also to James
Inloes, making a settlement of the estate, real and personal, of
the said Mary E. Berrett, in trust for the uses and purposes
therein mentioned; and also the several decrees of the chancel-
lor of Maryland, and the county court of Baltimore county, in
and upon the premises, and appointing successively James Inloes,
and finally Gabriel Paul, trustees in the premises, in the place
of the said John Oliver and Sarah Chew O'Donnell, be, and the
same are hereby declared to be, null and void, so far as the same
extend to vest the property of the said Mary E. Berrett in trust,
and that all the estate of the said Mary E. Berrett, which has
not been sold and disposed of by virtue of and under the authority
of the. decrees aforesaid, and which is now vested in said Gabriel
Paul in trust, be and the same is hereby vested in the said Mary
E. Berrett, in the same manner, and under the same conditions,
and none other, as married women can and do, by the laws of
this state, hold and enjoy property of the same description ;
Provided, and it is hereby expressly declared, that nothing in this
act shall in any way or manner effect the right of any other per-
son in and to any part of the said property, and that this act be
construed only to render void and annul the trust now existing
as aforesaid, as to leave the said Mary E. Berrett, with res-

Passed Jan. 31.

Certain deeds
and decrees de-
clared null and
void.

Proviso.