132 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

Purchasers as shall or may be Suff^t to pay and Satisfie the Respec-
tive portions of John Clements the Elders Children and their Legall
Representatives to be Ascertained by the Judge in Testamentary
affaires or Commissary Generall of this Province due regard being
by him had to the debts sperate & desperate due to the said Estate
at the time of the death of the said John Clements the Elder w^th the
Legall Charges Expended by John Clements the Younger in Ob-
teyning this act w^ch are first to be Satisfied thereout and then the
filliall portions Satisfied by such Equall proportions as the purchase
money or tobacco will amount to and that the said Purchaser or
purchasers by Vertue of such Sale and this Act shall have and Enjoy
to them and their heires an Absolute & pure Estate in fee Simple
therein any law Statute Useage or Custome to the Contrary in any
wise Notwithstanding.

Actsof 1711,
ch. 7

p. 12

An Act Confirming the title of Land therein menconed unto Co^ll W^m
Holland Rich^d Harrison and Samuell Chew.
Whereas Colonell William Holland Richard Harrison & Samuell
Chew have made it appear to the Generall Assembly of this province
that they had heretofore Employed as their trustees and agents John
Hyde and Isaac Milner of the Citty of London in the Kingdom of
England Merch^ts to purchase for them Certain Lands Lyeing in
Calvert County Called Abbington Mannour and Dowsdale Con-
taining about two thousand acres (more or Less) Late the Lands of
John Abbington heretofore a Merch^t in this Province deced that the
said John Hyde and Isaac Milner in pursuance of the said Co^l W^m
Holland Rich^d Harrison and Sam^l Chews directions in refference to
the said Purchase proceeded so farr therein as to Purchase from
Meriell Abbington the Heiress at Law of the af^d John Abbington
by Vertue of a Decree made for that purpose in the High Court of
Chancery in the said Kingdom of England the Lands af^d in ord^r
to be by them Conveyed to the said Co^l W^m Holland Richard Harri-
son and Samuell Chew in the proportion by them agreed upon; that
the said John Hyde and Isaac Milner have accordingly Conveyed the
same to Richard Harrison and Seth Biggs deceased in ord^r to be by
them further Conveyed and setled according to the said Co^l W^m
Holland Rich^d Harrison and Sam^ll Chews agreem^t between them-
selves which is now done by the said Richard Harrison the said
Biggs being dead that the said Hyde and Milner being not so Con-
versant with what our Law in this Province requires in order to the
passing of Land from One person to another Omitted the getting the
said Meriell Abbingtons acknowledgment of the said Lands as our
Law requires in such Cases And the said Meriel Abbington being
Since dead so that her Acknowledgment Cannot now be had nor
any other way devised how that defect in the said Co^ll W^m Holland
Richard Harrison and Samuell Chews title to the said Lands may
be helped but by an Act of Assembly to Confirm their Right who have