ODBN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 81

CHAPTER 67.

AN ACT to enable certain alien heirs of William
Dalzell, late of Montgomery County, deceased,
to take by descent certain lands lying in Mont-
gomery County, of which the said William
Dalzell died, seized and possessed.

WHEREAS, a certain William Dalzell, late of Montgomery County, Maryland, some time in the month of December, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, departed this life, being at the time of his death seized and possessed of certain
lands lying and being in said Montgomery Coun- ty, and leaving as his heirs at law a sister and the children of several brothers and sisters, residing in various parts of the United States and Great Britain, the following heirs-at-law of the said William Dalzell, viz; Margaret McCutchion, Samuel McGimpsey, Margaret McGimpsey, Mar- tha McGimpsey, Jane Mawhirk, Sarah Canning, Eliza Canning, Margaret Trupland, and Christian McCracken, reside in Ireland and Scotland, and are alien, and are, therefore, by the laws of the State of Maryland incapacitated from taking by descent lands lying in the State, therefore,	Alien heirs.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Margaret McCutchion, Sam- uel McGimpsey, Margaret McGimpsey, Martha McGimpsey, Jane Mawhirk, Sarah Canning, Eliza Canning, Margaret Trupland, and Christian Mc- Cracken, aliens, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to take and receive, hold and con- vey, all the several interests in the lands lying in Montgomery County, of which the late William Dalzell died seized and possessed, which they would be entitled to take by descent if they were not aliens; and that they be and they are hereby made capable of transmitting and authorized to transmit said interest in said lands to their heirs or devisees as fully and effectually and in the same manner as if they wore by birth citizens of the State.	Power to con- vey interest.
See. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 2, 1870, 6	In force.