Acts. 131

Sume of one hundred Eighty five thousand and fifteen pounds of
tobacco and two hundred and Seventy five pounds sterling due on
two bonds haveing first made his Last will & Testament in wrighting
of w^ch he made Ex^rs who refused to accept the trust in them
Reposed or to prove the said will so that Letters of Administration
were thereupon Granted to Mary Clements the widdow and Relict of
the af^d John Clements the Elder who togeather with a Certain Wil-
liam Ford late of Dorchester County Merch^t became bound unto
the then Lord Proprietary of this Province to the use of the Said
John Clements Orphans in the penall Sume of four hundred thou-
sand pounds of tobacco for her due Administration thereof which
she altogeather neglected and Shortly after Intermarried with a
Certain James Derumple spent Imbezilled and Confounded the said
Personall Estate the Orphans of the said John Clements the Elder
haveing little or nothing bestowed upon their Education and wholy
destitute of their portions since w^ch the said Mary Clements is dead
And the af^d W^m Ford without any Account rendred of the said
administration, not haveing left any Personall Estate behind them
wherew^th to satisfie the Orphans of the af^d John Clements deced
neither had the said Mary any reall Estate at the time of her death
But in as much as the af^d W^m Ford dyed possesst in fee Simple of and
in Severall Considerable tracts of Land within this Province and that
the Children and Grand Children of the said John Clements have
no releife Either in Common Law or Equity The administration bond
Entred into by the af^d W^m Ford not being to be found though the
Minnitt thereof appeares upon the records in the Commissary Gen-
eralls office and the said Fords Collaterall Heires are not within
this Province So as to be Served with process out of the high Court
of Chancery It was prayed that for their Relief it might be Enacted

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And be it Enacted by the Queens most Excellent Maj^ty by and
with the advice and Consent of her Maj^tys President Councill and
Assembly of this province and the authority of the same that unless
the heir at Law of the said W^m Ford shall within two years from
the End of this Session of Assembly render him her or themselves
within this province hyable to be Served with Subpena or other
process of the Court of Chancery and Answer the Petitioners bill of
Complaint Stand to Perform fullfill and abide the decree of that high
and honourable Court thereon if any shall be made within Seven
yeares for releif of the said John Clements and his sisters Children
Claiming their Severall Portions out of their father and Grandfather
John Clements the Elders Estate it shall and may be lawfull and the
Severall and Respective persons hereafter named (that is to say)
M^r Walter Campbell Master Jn^o Hudson and Master Henry Ennalls
or any two of them are by Vertue of this act after the Expiration
of the said two years from the End of this Session of Assembly
Impowered and Authorized to sell all or so much of the Lands of
the said W^m Ford within this Province to the best Purchaser or

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