332 Assembly Proceedings, October 1671.

Liber
W H &L

second of July one thousand six hundred forty Nyne Whereby
Your Lordship did Impower your Lordships Gouernour of this
Prouince from time to time to grant lands to any persons of
Dutch french or other forreigne discent in the same in as
ample manner and uppon the same Tearmes and Provisoes as
he was thereby Impowered to grant Lands to any person or
persons of Brittish or Irish discent and dureing their abode
within this Prouince Your peticoners haue been alwayes faith-
full and Obedient vnto your Lordships Lawes and Customes
of this Province as other the good people of this Prouince
of Brittish or Irish discent may to their great Losse pre-
judice and hinderance as alsoe to the deterring of divers
others of the forreigne Nacons aforesaid from comeing
into this Prouince and by Consequence foreslowing the peo-
pling of this Province with vsefull artificers & Handy crafts
men may itt therefore please your Lordship of your Abundant
goodnesse and wonted care of and over this Prouince That itt
may be Enacted & Ordeined and Bee itt Enacted & ordeined
by the Right Hon^ble the Lord and Proprietary of this Prouince
By and with the aduice & Consent of the upper & Lower
house of this present Generall Assembly & the Authority of
the same That your Lordships Humble Peticoners Hans Han-
son Cornelius Comegys the Elder Millementy his wife Corne-

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lius Comegys the Younger Elizabeth Comegys William
Comegys & Hannah Comegys Children of the said Cornelius
Comegys the Elder & Willementy his wife shall and may from
hence forth be adjudged Reputed & taken as natureall borne
people within this Prouince of Maryland and alsoe that they
shall and may from hence forth by the same Authority be
Enabled and adjudged to all intents and Purposes able to de-
mand Challenge aske have hold & Enjoy any lands Tenements
Hereditaments and Rents within this Prouince as heire or
heires to any of their Ancestors by Reason of any discent in
fee simple fee tayle Generall or speciall or Remainder vpon
any Estate tayle or come to them by any discent in fee simple
or fee tayle Generall or Speciall or Remainder vpon any Estate
tayle as aforesaid or by any other Lawfull Conveyance or Con-
veyances or meanes whatsoever as if they had all been borne
within this Prouince or were of Brittish or Irish discent as afore-
said And alsoe that they and every of them from henceforth
may and shall be Enabled to prosecute maintain & avow
Justifie & defend all manner of accons suites plaintes and other
demands whatsoever as Liberally franckly freely fully Lawfully
& securely as if they and every of them had been Natureally
borne within this Prouince of Maryland or were of Brittish or
Irish discent or as any other person or persons Natureally
borne within this Prouince or of Brittish or Irish discent may