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of any publick or County Levy due from such pson or psons but
will notw^thstanding the Same debt being due from the sherriff take
the body or goods of such person in Execution shall be Lyable to be
prosecuted in an action of trespass or false Imprisonm^t as the Case
shall require.
And be it further Enacted that the high Sherriff of Every respec-
tive County shall be lyable to be sued as af^d for his own or any of his
deputys offence or offences against this act and the debts menconed
which the Sherriff may owe to any Inhabitant are to be understood
of such debts as are assigned to the Inhabitants in the publick
County or parish Levy or forty p poll as afores^d or due from the
high sherriff by bill bond note or account proved any law usage or
Custome to the Contrary notwithstanding.

Liber LL, 4

Acts

And be it further Enacted that a Certain Act of Assembly of this
province Entituled an act to reform the Ill practice of the high sherr^s
within this province made at a session of Assembly begun and held
at the City of Annapolis the twenty fifth day of Novem^r Anno Dom.
Seventeen Hundred and nine be and is hereby repealed and made
Void

p. 71

An Act for the relief of John Smith of Cecill County in the regulate-
ing a mistake in a certain deed of bargaine and Sale from the
devisees of Phillip Lynes Esq^r to him made

Whereas John Smith of Cecill County son and heir at law to
William Smith late of the same County deceased has by his humble
petition and allegations Shewn and set fourth to this present Gen-
erall Assembly that it was heretofore to witt on or about the fourth
day of February in the Year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven
hundred and One agreed by and between Phillip Lynes late of Charles
County Esquire deceased (who was seized in fee of two large tracts
of land in the aforementioned Cecill County the one Called Friend-

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Oct. 1713,
ch. 5
p. 80

ship the other Belleconell) of the one Part and the aforementioned
W^m Smith of the other part that the said Phillip in Considⁿ of two
hundred and five pounds Sterling should Convey assigne make
over and Confirme unto the s^d W^m his heirs and Assignes for ever a
good sure and Indeffeazable Estate of Inheritance in fee simple of
in and unto one hund^d & thirty acres of land out of fourteen hundred
acres Called Friendship and also of in and unto Eight hundred and
Seventy acres of that Land Called Belleconell which Lay next the
water on Each side of the run of Elk river in the whole one thousand
acres of Land to the use of the s^d W^m his heirs and assignes for
ever for the better Assureing the performance whereof the s^d Phillip
Lynes Esq^r past his Obligation to the same W^m on the fourth day
of May Anno Dom Seventeen hundred and three whereby he
Oblidged himself and his heirs in the penall Sum of five hundred
and fourteen pounds Sterling with Condⁿ that in Case he performed

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