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CHAP. 181.
Monies to be first
applied to pay-
ment thereof
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dollars; the printer to the state fourteen hundred dollars; the mes-
senger to the council two hundred and fifty dollars.
2. And be it enacted, That all monies which shall remain in the
treasury after discharging the journal of accounts, and all unappro-
priated money which may come into the treasury, be first applied to
the payment of the civil list for the ensuing year.
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Passed Feb 14 1820
School fund au-
thorised to be paid
over to several
counties
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CHAP. CLXXXII.
An Act relating to the School Fund in the several Counties therein mentioned.
Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
treasurer of western shore be and he is hereby directed, to pay
annually to the order of the commissioners of the school fund for
Talbot. Caroline, Charles, Dorchester, Worcester, Harford. Saint
Mary's, Baltimore, Allegany, Calvert, Montgomery) Cecil, Prince-
George's, Somerset, Kent and Queen-Anne's Counties, or their au-
thorised agent, their respective legal proportions of the school fund
which may hereafter come into his hands, in lieu of vesting the same
in the Commercial and Farmers Bank of Baltimore, and Mechanics
Bank of Baltimore, as prescribed in the ninth section of a supple-
ment to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate a company to make
a turnpike road leading to Cumberland, and for the extension of
the charters of the several banks in the city of Baltimore) and for
other purposes. ——
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Passed Feb 14 1820
Preamble
In case widow is
entitled to dower
in any real estate
sold proportion of
purchase money to
be awarded her
Her consent in
writing to be filed
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CHAP. CLXXXIII.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act to declare and enlarge the powers of the
Court of Chancery, and the County Courts as Courts of Equity.
Whereas by the eighth section of an act, entitled, An art to de-
clare and enlarge the powers of the court of chancery, and the coun-
ty courts as courts of equity, passed at December session eighteen
hundred and eighteen, chapter one hundred and ninety-three, it is
enacted that a sale, of real estate may be decreed in the discretion
of the chancery court, and the, county courts as courts of equity, in
order to save the personal: And whereas, no provision is contain-
ed in the said act for the purpose of awarding to the widow a rea-
sonable portion of the purchase money as a compensation for her
dower in real estate sold under decrees made in conformity with
said act; therefore,
1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
where any sale of any real estate is decreed in conformity with the
said section of the said act, and in case any widow is entitled to
any right of dower in such real estate, so decreed to be sold, the
trustee or trustees appointed in said decree shall proceed to sell
such real estate as is decreed to be sold, according to the terms
therein prescribed, free and disencumbered of any right of dower
of the said widow in and to the same, and in consideration there-
of the chancellor, or county courts respectively, shall award to such
widow such proportion of the purchase money as he or they shall
think just and equitable, not exceeding more than one-seventh part,
nor less than one-tenth part of the net proceeds of the said sales,
according to the age, health and condition, of such widow; and such
award of payment shall be a sufficient bar to all and every right or
title of dower which such widow may claim in and to such real es-
tate so as aforesaid sold.
2. And be it enacted, That before any sale of land shall be decreed,
to affect the interest of a widow under this law, her consent in wri-
ting shall be filed in the court in which the case is depending.
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