218 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

there Lodged for the perusall of any the said Peters Creditors that
shall require the Same without any fee to be paid for the same or for
such Lodging thereof Saveing the Right of his most Sacred Majesty
his heirs and successors and of all bodies politick and Corporate.
Provided Nevertheless that in Case the said Peter shall at any time
after the Makeing such his Oath or Takeing such Test as af^d be
Convict of Willfull and Corrupt perjury thereupon or of a Willfull
breach or Non Complyance with the Tenor of such Test that then

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the said Peter shall upon such Conviction be Adjudged to stand
two hours in the Pillory and have his Left Ear Cut of and shall be
wholly deprived of any the Benefitts Designd him by this Law and
shall be from thenceforth Liable to be prosecuted for any debts or
demands Whatsoever in the same manner as if this Act had Never
been made any thing therein Contained to the Contrary Notwith-
standing

Acts of 1716,
ch. 13

An Act Impowering the Surviving Executor of the last Will and
Testament of Robert Smith Esquire late of Talbot County de-
ceased to Sell Lands for the payment of his debts and to make
over other lands according to the deceaseds Will which were
sold by the deceased but Never made over by him.
Whereas Robert Smith Esquire late of Talbot County deceased
on or about the last of January Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and
six made his last will and testament in Writeing and amongst other
things therein contained appointed his Debts to be paid and for
payment thereof left one thousand acres of land to be sold and ap-
pointed Renatus Smith and Anthony Ivy Executors thereof as ap-
peares by the record of the said Will remaining in the Comissary
Generalls office of this province and shortly after dyed which said
Executors took upon them the burthen of the Administration of the
deceaseds Estate and the Execution of the said Will and in pur-
suance thereof Caused the Estate of the said deceased to be Vallued
and appraised according to La'w the Totall whereof as per the In-
ventorys remaining Likewise in the aforesaid office amounted to one

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thousand & Sixty Seven pounds three shillings and three halfe pence
which with the Vallue of the Land aforesaid left by the deceased
to be sold (as tis Suggested to this present generall Assembly) he
thought might be Sufficient to discharge his Debts But it is now
represented by Renatus Smith the Surviving Executor (the other
Executor being dead) that the whole personall Estate of the deceased
together with the purchase mony of the af^d Land was not near Suffi-
cient to Satisfy the Creditors of the Testator and that he the said
Renatus in Endeavouring to Comply with the Testators Will (as to
the payment of his debts) has greatly Impoverisht his own Estate
and Likewise has past his own obligations to Severall persons to