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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0264 and id is 1 raw text is: THOMAS H. HIOKS,.ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 289
CHAPTER 185.
AN ACT to authorise the Orphans' Court of Passed March
Somerset county, to purchase a new Seal, and
to provide for the better preservation of the re-
cords in their office.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General A4sem- Orphans' Court
bly of l]faryland, That the Orphans' Court of puthorised to
Somerset county, be and they are hereby author- seal.
ised to provide a new seal for the said court, (if
they shall deem the same necessary) at the ex-
pense of the said county, provided the cost of the
same shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five dol-
lars.
SiEc. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Or- Alterations
phans' Court are hereby authorised and empower- and repairs an-
ed to cause such alterations and repairs to be thor ed.
made in the office of the Register of Wills for
Somerset county, as they may deem necessary
for the preservation of the records and papers in
said office, and thal the expenses thereof be levied
on the assessable property of said county, at the
next annual levy to be made by the Commission-
ers of said county.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall In force.
take effect from the date of its passage.
CHAPTER 186.
AN ACT to make valid a bill of sale from James Passed March
Dealo of Anne Arundel county, to Franklin 4, 1858.
Waters.
WHEREAS, on the sixteenth day of May, in the Preamble.
year eighteen hundred and forty-two, James
Deale, of Anne Arundel county, executed to a
certain Franklin Waters, then of Prince George's
county, a bill of sale for a certain negro woman
named Hester, and her infant child Hester, the
said negro woman to serve as a slave, until the
year eighteen hundred and forty-six, and the](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsmd0264&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)