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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0112 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWVS: OV1LAR-YLANY.
~'CIAPnR 8. . Dec.Scg. 1823
ATI. act for the benfit of. tl in fant cildren and hicrs, atlaw of Jesse H NWain-
r iqgt;t late of Soirs'ct 6opnty, deceasd: , : Passd Feb,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted bi. thc General A .CMNblY -f TMariknd, Tliat 4,. 182
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Somerset county courtare hereby. nuthorised'and ciempowered,; tore- to the conty
ceive and coilfirnm the pr'ooecdings of the comatmiss'6ners arady had c6urt.
upon the petition ofSamiuel McBride and Leh4hi wife,'ffr :the sale
of the real estate ' of Jesse H. Waintight, late of Somerset county, the
report of which S-aid.,ommi'ssi6n rs ws roady to bc rcturned 'o said.:
court at.,November terr, eighteen hundred and-t;11 - ,.hre., and to
decree and order thc said commissioners, or a mljorit y o .t6o selL
all the real estate. of said Jesse'H. Wain'ight, con tained i - i''e-
port, except the dwelling farni upon which Rosanna A. Wairight,
widow of said Jesse 1-: Vanright noIw resides, free 'rcin and disen-
cumbered of the widow's dower, and to sell the sai dw ling farm
upon which the wid6w now resides, suhjei'vio, hery doweierein;
]rovded, the slid county court shall be , a~i~ied tat a sale'of the
said estate in manner aforesaid, wijl be fbr. the inerest and a nta'
of the infant children entitled to the said estate. ' n'.
2. And be it enacted; That'the. S41d. county cour t rmay, aild are Ihere- Disposition.,
by authorised upon a sale of said estate as above, and in case the said
Rosanna A. Wainright has or will consent in Writing to the saleof the
whole estate (except the dwelling fa:m upon. which sh6 now resides,).
free from and disencurubered of her right of d0over thleen, to award
her such l)oportion of the purchase mon, y of't at part of the 'Sta~e to
which her right of dower shal.l hai been released, as by the tentl sec.
tion of an act passed. at Decemhier session, eighteen hundred 'find six-
teen, chapter one hundred and fifty-four,. t-e1 said¢oltia b t a %,e
done if she had consented to the sale of the-whol-e estat de di .um-
bered of her dower.
3. And be it enacted, That all future proceedings under the said Subjict, ,
commission and the proceeds of the Sale'of the said estate m'deSv Ilaws.
virtue of this law, shall he accordingoto and governed by the prt~vi-
sions of an act entitled, an act to auihorize the chancellor and the sev-
cral county courts of this state to order and decree the sales, of rqal.
estate of minors in the cases therein mentioned, passed at Decetb r.
session, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and its Several supplements.
A supplement to an act elftiticd,:a'supplementto the actentitld, -an act relatiye lasedFeb,
to negroes a'ndislave. ,. 3 1824.
WmIrMtAS, Spec il. mcs of lelzis!fitbrt it~ luthese th emoalf 'cbe
slaves into this stat lh e beh i er6ro antI , course *r ratly -.
pensive to the state; liduihereas, no; grea iiirnid iehc n6.ccur
from a general law embracipg most'of such Cases-Therefore,
Be d ehe,'ealAssenbq of FMar'yland, T ht if n In ort,.iob
itizen of this. sqtatcjtt icquired or. sil ,cqire piroperty in, any a :Io -:d.','
slave or,siaves, bleiligrcsidents.of. aniy oflle'. United. state, by m.ar. .
riae beqLuest, Icourse of distributtion t's giarcli'or by, gift, or- i
ay, other lawful maner, such cite n may t at aIey tiw' e, remoVe a, ,
bring such slave or slavcs for the pn rpose only ol working or ermplPY.
Ing stklc slave olm slavesVwith-in this state, fohi. oyin h imfrsdmte r .-
i¢ and 'no for any other'purpose: rgvzdd, tha a lst'of.uclislave!
or e renderned iathe. ma dicredcted iby the act of sereii teen.
hmtui'ed and ninety.six, ,.chaiter sixtyse'ei,' .,nd thle.acttbf eight-en
hundrecd gnp foir-, q haptcr ninet, and the ctC. tfceighten hundred and.
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