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bly made at a Sessions of Assembly begun and held at the City of
Annapolis the 26th Day of June, Anno Domini One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Fifteen, entituled, An Act for ascertaining the Bounds
of Land within this Province, have made their Award, Decree and
Determination concerning such Bounds, by which Awards, Decrees
and Determinations the Petitioners aforesaid being much aggrieved,
pursuant to the afore-mentioned Act, made their Application in due
time by way of Petition to his Excellency the Governour, for a Com-
mission of a Review upon the aforesaid Proceedings, which his Ex-
cellency has been pleased to grant them, but by sundry Accidents
have lost the Benefit of having such Commission Executed within
the Limited Time according to the afore-mentioned Act, and others
must unavoidably loose the Benefit of such Commissions, the Per-
sons Commissioned, and also others Interested being obliged to at-
tend the Publick Affairs and Business of this Province in this present
General Assembly, until the Time Limited for executing such Com-
missions will either be expired, or so near expiring, that it will be
Impossible such Commissions can be executed in due Time, pur-
suant to the Directions of that Act. And it being further consid-
ered, That there may be some others that conceive themselves in-
jured by the Awards and Decrees of the Commissioners for the
Counties that had resolved in due Time, but has not yet made Appli-
cation to his Excellency for a Commission of Review, and likewise
some Cases where the Commissioners of the Counties have begun
and made some Steps towards, but have not finished their Award
and Determination therein,
Be it therefore likewise Enacted, That in all the afore-mentioned
Cases neither the Commissioners of any of the several Counties, nor
Commissioners of Review shall proceed any further in Executing
such their Commissions, by Virtue thereof, or the aforementioned
Act, but that all Parties concerned in such Dispute, where there has
not been a final and conclusive Determination, pursuant to the Di-
rection of the said Act, shall be and are hereby left to their Liberty
to make their fresh application to the Commissioners appointed by
this Act, and to enjoy and reap the Benefit of the same, to all intents
and purposes, as any other Person or Parties whatsoever.
And further, whereas sundry Persons have likewise by their hum-
ble Petition set forth, That some of the Commissioners of the Coun-
ties and also Commissioners of Review for ascertaining the Bounds
of Land, pursuant to the afore-mentioned Act, have proceeded to
make, and have made their Awards, Decrees and Determinations
concerning the Bounds of several Lands (wherein such Petitioners
were Interested) and have awarded their Lands to others, to their
great Prejudice, without their being made Parties, and without giv-
ing such due Notice of their Proceedings to such Petitioners, as,
according to the true Intent and Meaning of the aforementioned Act
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