140 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

Grass, Reedin, Hamers milk, Patricks Wells and Williams Goodwill
and to the said Tobias Pollard divers other tracts of Land Videlicet
Marsh Land Sharp's cut-Lett Sharps desire Blood poynt, Johns
Desire, The race, Island in the Marsh, Woolf Trapp Ridge, Gotion,
and good Luck Point, And the heires Male of their bodyes Lawfully
begotten, All which tracts of Land lyeing and being in Dorchester
County af^d the Children of the said Tobias and John Pollard being
Daughters are not Capable of Inheriting by reason of the speciall

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tayle af^d the said Tobias and John Pollard therefore humbly prays
that this Generall Assembly would give Leave to prepare & bring in
a bill for their Relief by Enlarging their Estates into a Tayle Generall
Be it therefore Enacted by the Queens most Excellent Majesty 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 the
said John Pollard the Grandson and Tobias Pollard the Younger Son
of the said Jn^o Pollard Esquire deceased Each and Either of them
shall by the Authority of this present Generall Assembly And by
Vertue of this Act Severally, have, hold, and Enjoy and to all In-
tents and purposes whoever be deemed and adjudged, to have, hold.
Enjoy and be severally Possessed of the Severall tracts of Lands
and Tenements as by the said will Devised, And have an Estate
therein in Tayle Generall, Any Law Statute, Useage or Custome, or
any article, or Clause in the said will to the Contrary notwithstanding.

Acts of 1711,
ch. 15

An Act to rectifie a Mistake in the wrighting of the Last will and
Testament of the Reverend John Edwards late of Baltemore
County deced and for Seiling an Estate of Inheritance in fee
Simple on Jn^o Stoakes the Devisee in the said will named.
Whereas the Reverend John Edwards Late Minister of the Gospell
in the County of Baltemore made his Last will and testam^t in wright-
ing bearing date the first day of January in the year of our Lord
Christ one thousand Seven hundred and Tenn, and therein and
thereby devised and bequeathed unto his Godson John Stokes Son of
John Stokes of the said County of Baltemore Gentleman a peice of
Land lying in Baltemore County af^d Called by the name of Wast-
wood Containing two hundred and twenty acres more or Less; but
Either by the Ignorance, or negligence of the writer of the said
will, Contrary to the Intent, and purpose of the said John Edwards
only An Estate for Life is thereby given and bequeathed, to the said
John Stokes the sonn, and it appearing to this Generall Assembly,
that the Intent and designe of the s^d John Edwards was to give, and

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bequeath an Estate of Inheritance in Fee simple unto the said
devisee It is therefore pray'd that it may be Enacted And be it
Enacted by the Queens most Excellent maj^ty by and with the advice
and Consent of the President Councill and Assembly of this province
and the Authority of the same that the said John Stokes the devisee,
by Vertue of the said will, & of this act, shall have, hold, possess,