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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

MAY SESS.
1813,

tract of land, or two parts of two tracts of land in Bal-
timore county, called "Level Union" and ''The Level
Union, " owned and held by Doctor Joseph Mackrill,
be, and the same is hereby relinquished; and that the
deed to be made by James Sloan, Senior, as attorney
for Joseph Mackrill, to Edward Harris, in pursuance
of the authority granted to him by the act to which this
a supplement, shall vest in the said Edward Harris,
his heirs and assigns, all the right, title, interest and
estate of the said Joseph Mackrill, in and to the
said lands, free, clear and discharged of and from any
right or claim which the state of Maryland may have
acquired in consequence of the said Mackrill's not hav-
ing been regularly naturalized according to the acts of
congress of the United States of America, and in as full
and ample a manner as if the said Joseph Mackrill had
been a naturalized citizen of the United States of A-
merica.

Passed May
28, 1813.

CHAPTER 14.
An act for the relief of Gerard Topken, an insolvent
debtor, of the city of Baltimore.

Benefits of the
insolvent laws
may be grant-
ed.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the judges, or any one
judge of Baltimore county court, be, and they, or any
one of them, are hereby authorised and directed to ex-
tend to Gerard Topken the benefit and relief of the act
of assembly, passed at November session eighteen
hundred and five, entitled, "An act for the relief of
sundry insolvent debtors, " and the supplements there-
to, upon the application heretofore made by him to
Baltimore county court, without compelling him to
produce the assent of so many of his creditors as have
due to them two-thirds in amount of his debts, and to
extend and afford to the said Gerard Topken, all the
benefits, advantages and provisions of the aforesaid
act and the supplements thereto, in the same manner,
and upon the same terms and conditions, as if he had
obtained the assent of two-thirds of his creditors to his
release under the same.

CHAPTER 15.

Passed May 29,
1813;

An act to provide for the payment of the militia which
have been called into actual service, and the expences
incurred by reason thereof.

Sum appro-
priated.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That there shall be paid to the
order of the governor, by the treasurer of the Western