362 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 5-Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.
No. 04.

Maryland October 3^d 1704.

On the behalf of her Ma^ty &c I will this be a Law.
Jo : Seymour

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An Act enabling William Sweatnam of Talbot County Gent
Devisee of Richard Sweatnam dec'd to sell Sixteen hundred
and twenty four Acres of Land.

Whereas Capt. Richard Sweatnam late of Talbot County
deceased by his last will and Testament duly proved and
recorded in the Office of the Judge for probatt of Wills and
granting Administrations &c did devise unto his son William
Sweatnam four thousand seven hundred and fifty seven acres
of Land party of which were these following tracts called
and Containing as herein exprest (to witt) Abington two
hundred Acres, Bodwell two hundred and fifty Acres Downs
fforrest three hundred Acres Bridgwater three hundred Acres
Hacton two hundred and fifty Acres Moorfields one hundred
and twenty four Acres and Browns Lott two hundred Acres
in all sixteen hundred and twenty four Acres lying in Talbot
and other Countys which by the said Will were entail'd on
the said William Sweatnam and the heires of his body and in
default thereof to his brother John Sweatnam and the heires
of his body both which sons of the said Cap^t Richard Sweat-
nam that is to say William and John Sweatnam are now living
and have issue of their bodys lawfully begotten And have
apply'd to this Generall Assembly that in regard the said
sixteen hundred and twenty four Acres of Land are fforrest
land and at present of little or no Advantage to the said
William Sweatnam or in any Considerable time likely to be
so but that the rents thereof will in a Small time Surmount
the value of the said lands there being now due therefore to
the right honourable the Lord Proprietary one hundred and
forty pounds sterl. The Burgesses of this Generall Assembly
do pray that it may be Enacted and
Be it Enacted by the Queens most excellent Majesty by and
with the Advice and Consent of her Majestys Governour
Councill and Assembly of this Province and the Authority of
the same that the said William Sweatnam for the reasons
aforesaid be and is hereby Empowered (notwithstanding

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such entaile by the last Will and Testament of the said Cap^t
Richard Sweatnam or any other Law Statute or Usage to the
Contrary) to sell or other wise dispose of the aforesaid tracts
of Land called Abington Bodwell Downs fforrest Bridg-
water Hacton Moorefields and Browns lott containing six-
teen hundred and twenty four Acres of Land to any persons