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                JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esq; Governor.

to prevent such head or heads from being a second time before a justice in
order to obtain a certificate.

1788.

CHAP.
    IV.

    III.  And be it enacted, That every person or persons who shall produce a certificate
as aforesaid to the justice of the county wherein the said wolf or wolves
were killed, at the levy court, shall, for every old wolf's head be allowed five
pounds current money, and for every young wolf's head be allowed twenty shillings
current money, to be by the said justices assessed and levied in the county
levy, together with the sheriff's salary for collecting the same, and to be paid by
the sheriff to such person or persons as shall be entitled to the same as aforesaid.
Certificates to
be allowed in
the levy, &c.
    IV.  This act to continue for five years, and until the end of the next session
of assembly which shall happen thereafter.
Continuance.
                                            CHAP. V.
        An ACT for the relief of George Wolf, of Baltimore county.

Passed December
22.
    WHEREAS George Steyer, late of Baltimore county, deceased, being
seized in fee of considerable real estate, some time before his death,
which happened in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and eighty-six, made and executed his last will and testament in writing, whereby,
among other things, he devised part of his said real estate to aliens, residing
in Germany, and a part to his nephew, George Wolf, then an inhabitant of this
state, and an infant who had not been naturalized:  And whereas the said George
Wolf is the next of kin, of the whole blood, to the said George Steyer, that he constituted
the said George Wolf his residuary legatee, which bequest, from sundry
had debts, hath been in a great measure defeated, with respect to the said George
Wolf:  And whereas those aliens to whom the said George Steyer devised part of
his real estate, cannot, by the laws of this state, hold under the said devise, but
the said property so devised hath been escheated by a certain Nancy Steyer:  And
this general assembly being willing to relinquish all benefit and advantage of the
composition money, which the state hath or may be entitled to receive from the
said Nancy Steyer in favour of the said George Wolf,
Preamble.
    II.  Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said George
Wolf shall be and is hereby entitled to all benefit and advantage arising from any
composition money which the said state hath received, or shall be entitled to receive,
on account of the estate of the said George Steyer being escheated; and the
treasurer of the western shore is hereby directed to pay to the said George Wolf any
sum or sums of money that have or may hereafter be received for or on account of
composition money for any part of the estate of the said George Steyer, deceased.
G. Wolf entitled
composition
money,
&c.
    III.  And, whereas Nancy Steyer, who hath obtained an escheat for part of
the said George Steyer's real estate, hath consented that the said George Wolf
should be confirmed in that part of the property devised to him by his uncle's
will, Be it enacted, That the said George Wolf be, and is hereby declared
capable of holding the estate devised to him by the last will of the said George
Steyer, saving nevertheless to all persons and bodies corporate, of particularly
named herein, their several and respective rights.

 
 

And entitled
to hold the

estate, &c.

                                            CHAP. VI.
An ACT for the relief of James Hawkins, a languishing prisoner
                                  in Baltimore county gaol.

Passed December
22.
    WHEREAS James Hawkins, a prisoner confined in the gaol of Baltimore
county for debt, by his petition to the legislature hath set forth,
that by reason of many misfortunes he is unable wholly to satisfy his
creditors, and hath prayed that he may be discharged from further confinement
upon his delivering up all his property for the use of his creditors; and the prayer
of the said petition being found reasonable, therefore,
Preamble.


 
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