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dred Acres Decended unto his Son William Dare who by his Last
will & Testament dated Twenty Fifth Nov^r One Thousand Seven
hundred & Twenty One and Duly Executed Devised the said Two
hundred Acres by the words following Viz.: As to the Two hundred
Acres of Land Adjoyning to my new Dwelling Plantation, Called
Wadmores Neck I Leave in the hands of my Executors to be disposed
of towards paying my Debts if money should be wanting and of the
said Will made Major John Dowdall & Cap^t Benjamin Pearce Ex-
ecutors, who refused the Executorship by which means Administra-
tion of the Estate of the said William Dare the son with the said Will
annexed was Committed to Edmond Benson & William Chapman,
And Whereas the said Major John Dowdall is lately dead and money
is wanting to pay and Discharge the Debts of the said William Dare
the son. And a person is willing to purchase the said Two hundred
Acres of Land if his purchase from the Surviving Executor Could
be secured by an Act of Assembly for that purpose and for Record-
ing and makeing the said Deed Valid from the said Watmore to the
said Dare the Father. Be it therefore Enacted by the right Honour-
able the Lord Proprietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his
Lordships Governour and the Upper & Lower Houses of Assembly
and the Authority of the same that the Aforesaid Deed from the said
John Watmore to the said William Dare shall & may be within Six
Months from & after the End of this present Sessions of Assembly

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Recorded amongst the Records in the Provinciall Courts Office and
that the same when so Recorded and the Record thereof shall be as
valid and Effectuall in Law to Convey the said Two hundred Acres
for the uses & purposes in the Deed Aforesaid as if the same had
been Acknowledged and Recorded Pursuant to the Directions of the
Act of Assembly made in the year Sixteen hundred & ninety Two
any Law or useage to the Contrary notwithstanding And Be it Fur-
ther Enacted that any Sale hereafter to be made of the said Two
hundred Acres for the Purposes and uses in y^r said will Mencond
by the said Benjamin Pearce the Surviveing Executor of the said
William Dare the Son, shall be as Valid & Effectuall in Law to
Convey and sell the said Two hundred Acres as if such Sale had been
made by the said John Dowdall and Benjamin Pearce any Law or
useage to the Contrary Notwithstanding.

Chap. XX

An Act to Enable the Clerk of Dorchester County to Deliver a
Deed of Bargain and Sale from the Heir of Henry Bray to Wil-
liam Cornwallis unto Richard Bennett Esq^r and to Enable the
Clerk of Queen Anns County to Deliver a Deed of Sale from the
heir of John Jones to the said Cornwallis unto the Clerk of Dor-
chester County and to Enable him to Record the same.

Whereas by An Act of Assembly Past at a Generall Assembly
began & held at Annapolis the Sixth day of October Anno Domini
Seventeen hundred & Twenty four Entituled an Act for secureing the