118 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

L. H. J.

the said Deed. " Read the first and second Time by especial
Order and Ordered to be thus indorsed Viz.

Read the first and second Time by especial Order and will
pass.
Signed p Order Tho. Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

The aforegoing Bill is sent up to the Honble Council by
Mr Fendall & Mr Stone.
They return and say they delivered the Bill.
The Petition of the Vestrymen of New Port Division of
William and Mary's Parish in Charles County being read this
Day in the House praying that New Port Hundred Part of
William and Mary's Parish in Charles County may be reunited
to King and Queen's Parish in Saint Mary's County being
read and the Question being put whether the Act of Assembly
for uniting New Port Hundred to William and Mary's Parish
in Charles County shall be repealed or not —
It is Resolved in the Affimative by Majority of Votes.
Thereupon Ordered That Leave be given to the Delegates

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of S^t Mary's County to bring in a Bill for repealing the Act
Entituled an Act for uniting New Port Hundred now Part of
King and Queen's Parish to William and Mary's Parish in
Charles County and for reuniting the said Hundred to King
and Queen's Parish in Saint Mary's County.
Col^o William Holland, Col^o Coursey, L^t Col^o Samuel Young
and Col^o Thomas Addison from the Honble Council deliver
Mr Speaker the Bill reinvesting Mary and Ann Seward
Daughters and Coheirs of William Seward late of Dorchester
County deceased the Son and Heir of George Seward formerly
of the said County in a certain Tract of Land in Dor. County
called Sectar with the following Indorsment Viz.

By the Council in Assembly
May the 4th 1715

This Bill being this Day read at the Board and the Parties
concerned therein heard by their Council and it being offered
that the Petitioners for the Bill may have Relief in Chancery
by Sci. fa. against the Assignee of the Patentee,
Resolved thereupon that since the Law has pointed out a
Method for vacating the Patent the Petitioners ought to seek
their Remedy there, before they apply to the General As-
sembly: And forasmuch as it is not doubted but the Lord
Proprietor will on the vacating the former Patent make a