206 Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1669.

Liber
W H &L

the advice and Consent of the upper and lower house of this
present Generall Assembly That your Lordships humble peti-
coners Garrett Vansweringen and Barbarah his wife Elizabeth
and Zacharias Vansweringen Isack DeBerelle Robert Roelants
Charles De Le Roche Jean Jourdaine John Vanheck and Peter
Johnson and every of them shall from henceforth be adjudged
Reputed and taken as Natureall borne people of this Prouince
of Maryland and alsoe that they and every of them shall and
may henceforth by the same Authority be Enabled and ad-
judged to all intents and purposes able to demand challenge
aske have hold and Enjoy any lands tenements Hereditaments
and Rents within this Prouince as heir or heires to any of their
Ancestors by reason of any discent in feesimple or ffeetayle
Generall or Speciall or Remainder Vpon any fee tayle Generall
or Speciall or come to them or any of them by any discent in
fee simple ffeetayle Generall or Speciall or Remainder vpon any
Estate tayle as aforesaid or by any other Lawfull Conveyance or
Conveyances or meanes whatsoever as if they and every of them
had been borne within this our Province or were of Brittish or Irish
discent as aforesaid and alsoe that they and every of them from
henceforth may and shall be Enabled to prosecute maintaine
and avow Justifie and defend all manner of accons Suites
plaints and other demands whatsoever as Liberally ffrankly
freely fully Lawfully and securely as if they and every of them
had been Natureally borne within this Province of Maryland or
were of Brittish or Irish discent and as any other person or
persons Natureally borne within this Prouince or of Brittish or
Irish discent may any wayes Lawfully doe Any Lawe Provisoe
Act or Custome of this Province or other thing whatsoever
had made ordeyned or done within this Prouince to the Con-
trary thereof in any wise to the Contrary Notwithstanding
And your peticoners shall as in duty bound
pray &^ca

p. 41

An Act Limitting the Extent of Attachments
and Provideing what shall be Levied vpon
Attachments & Execucons

Wee the Delegates of the Lower house of this present
Generall Assembly haueing taken into our serious Consideracon
the many mischiefes and inconveniencies accrueing to the good
people of this your Lordships Province and other Merchants
tradeing in and therevnto by Reason of Attachments issued
out of the Provinciall & County Courts of this Prouince
grounded vpon an act of Assembly held att saint Iohns the
fourth day of March one thousand six hundred forty seven
Intituled an act touching the Extent of Attachments and