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fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty-
four; to the said Robert Bowie, or his representative, on the
fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five ;
to the said Emily Bowie, or her representative, on the third day
of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six; to the said
Matilda Bowie, or her representative, on the tenth day of March
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; to the said Tho-
mas Bowie, or his representative, on the seventh day of April
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; to the said
John Bowie, or his representative, on the sixteenth day of De-
cember one thousand eight hundred and thirty; to the said
George Bowie, or his representative, on the fourth day of April
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; to the said Allen
Bowie, or his representative, on the twenty fourth day of August
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
2. And be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the trus-
tees aforesaid, or the survivor of them, shall forthwith after the
sale report the same to the justices of the orphans court of Prince-
George's county, and if it be by them confirmed, the trustees
aforesaid, or the survivor of them, shall, on the payment of the
purchase money, and not before, convey, by a deed to be duly
executed, acknowledged and recorded, the land so sold, and
thereupon the purchaser or purchasers shall hold the same, free,
from all claim whatever on the part of the children aforesaid ;
Provided nevertheless, that the sale or sales to be made shall not
be confirmed unless the purchaser or purchasers shall convey on
mortgage to the children aforesaid, other land, to secure, to them
respectively their proportions of the purchase money, which land
the justices of the orphans court may adjudge adequate to the
object.
3. And be it enacted, That in case of the death of either of
the minor children referred to in this bill, then and in that
event, it is provided that the proceeds of the said sale, belonging
to such deceased child, shall descend as the land would have done
had no sale been made.
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Dec. Ses. 1816.
Sale to be con-
firmed by or-
phans court.
Proviso.
Proceeds of
sale.
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CHAPTER 127.
An act to appoint Commissioners for the purpose of divid-
ing Dorchester County into five separate Election Dis-
tricts.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That John S. Macnamara, Henry Keene, Levin Wall, Colonel
Thomas Ennalls, Arthur Bell, William Craft, Thomas J. Patti-
son, Richard Tootell, and William Ford, be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, are
authorised and directed to lay off Dorchester county into five se-
parate districts, and to number the same, carefully making the
several districts as nearly equal as possible, having regard to
population, extent, and the convenience of the voters, and also
to make, choice of a place in each district at which the elections
shall be held, as nearly central as shall be practicable, having
regard to the circumstances aforesaid, and the accommodation
of persons attendant upon such elections; and the said commissi-
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Passed Jan 27.
Dorchester
county to be
laid off into 5
districts.
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