226 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

Proprietarie by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship
Governeur and the Upper and Lower houses of this present Generall
Assembly and the Authority of the same that the said William Jones
the son of the said Thomas Jones and the said Sarah the daughter
of the said Thomas Jones and the heirs from their Severall Bodys
Lawfully Issuing forever shall and may have and Enjoy such an
Estate in the said Tract of Land in the said Bridgers Lot Containing
Eleven hundred acres as he the said Thomas Jones by his Last Will
and Testament devised unto them in as full Ample and beneficiall
manner as if the said Intended deed of Bargaine and Sale had been
Executed by the said Joseph Bridger before his Death and the same
had been in due form of Law acknowledged and recorded, any Im-
perfection in the Conveyance of the said tract of Land by the said
Joseph Bridger to the said Thomas Jones, or any other Subse-
quent Conveyance or other Assureance thereof or of any parte
thereof made by the said Joseph Bridger his heirs or Assignes or

p. 344

any other person or persons Claiming by from or under him them
or any or Either of them to any person or persons whatsoever or any
Law Statute or useage to the Contrary Notwithstanding

Acts of 1716,
ch. 3
p. 355
[Other Acts
passed at
this Session
are printed
in Vols. 33
and 36 of the
Archives]

An Act for the releife of George Walls a Languishing Prisoner in
Charles County

Whereas George Walls a Languishing Prisoner in Charles County
has by his humble petition to the Generall Assembly of this province
set forth that he has Continued in the Custody of the sherr. of the
said County for near the space of two years past and still Continues
in the Like Deplorable Circumstances (not being able to redeem
his body with all the Estate or Interest he has in the world which he
is willing to Surrender and part with his Creditors) and unless
Relieved by a Particular Act of this Generall Assembly to be passed
in his favour (which by his said pet" he hath humbly pray'd for)
he feares he shall Continue a prisoner for Life And by that meanes
his wife and Children may become a burthen to the County, and for
that the truth of the said George Walls his Allegations are made
Appeare to this present Generall Assembly by Sufficient Testimony
And also that the said George has, not fallen under such Circum-
stances by any Idleness or Extravagancy of his Own haveing been
always a paines takeing Industrious planter But meerly by his Losses
at Sea and the Extream decay of the Tobacco Trade And also that
the said George is a person of an honest Sober Conversation And
therefore for that the said George and his family are Thought fitt
Objects of Charity and that his Lying in Goal Can be no Benefitt to
his Creditors Though it may prove a Ruin to himselfe and Burthen to
the County. It is prayed that he may be Releivecl, according to his
petition and that it may be Enacted. And be it Enacted by the Right
honble the Lord Proprietarie by and with the Advice and Consent of