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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR:

Dec. Ses. 1824

first duly sworn or affirmed, before some judge or justice of the
pence, faithfully and impartially to perform the duty required of
them by such commission; and make a just and fair division and
partition among the parties, according to the best of their skill and
judgment; and authorizing them, or a majority of them, to go upon
all the said lands and premises herein before described, both in
Maryland and Delaware; and make a just and fair division and
partition of the whole of said lands and premises as one estate; and
as if all said lands and premises were in the state of Delaware, be-
tween or amongst the parties; and to make return of such division
and partition, with a survey of the premises to be made by some
skillful surveyor, appointed by the commissioners, or a majority of
them; and to be first duly qualified as aforesaid; which said com-
missioners, or a majority of them, shall make return of said com-
mission, with the division and partition by them made, certified
under their hands and seals, or the hands and seals of a majority
of them, to the Chancellor of the state of Delaware, according to
the command of the said writ: and if such division and partition,
be approved by the Chancellor as just and equitable, he shall there-
upon enter a final decree, that the said division and partition shall
remain firm and stable forever; and such proceedings and decree
shall be good and effectual in law, and binding and conclusive
among the parties; and all claiming by, through or under them, or
any of them.

Record di-
rected.

2. And be it enacted, That a copy of these proceedings in the
court of chancery of the state of Delaware, and of the return of
said commissioners, duly certified, under the seal of said court;
and a duly certified copy of this art shall be recorded in the office
of the clerk of the county court, for Cecil county, in the state of
Maryland; and that in all courts of law and equity, the said record
of proceedings and of said return; and of this act, or a duly cer-
tified copy thereof, shall be admitted as evidence of said partition,
and of the matters and things therein contained.

Passed Jan.
26, 1825.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 69.

An additional supplement to the act entitled, An Act "to establish the line
between Frederick and Washington counties," passed at November Ses-
sion, 1810, chapter 6.
Whereas, by the original act, to which this is an additional sup-
plement, the respective levy courts of Frederick and Washington
counties, were directed to appoint three commissioners, each in
their respective counties, to run and establish the line between said
counties; and whereas the levy court of Frederick county, did ap-
point three commissioners agreeably to said act; but the levy court
of Washington county, not having appointed commissioners, the
object of the law was not carried into effect; and that at the De-
cember Session, 1823, chapter 60, a supplementary act, was pas-
sed, making it the duty of the levy courts of Frederick and Wash-
ington counties, to appoint three commissioners each, on or before
the first day of June then next ensuing, in their respective counties,
to carry into effect the object of the original act aforesaid, that the
levy court of Washington county, agreeably to said supplement,
appointed three commissioners, who with one of those appointed by