238 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

that the said Land by Vertue thereof and of this Act shall pass from
the said Jn^o Carey Jn^o Burridge and George Cole to the said Pereg^e
Brown & his heirs and Assignes in as full and Ample manner as if
the said recited deed from the said Jn^o Carey, Jn^o Burridge and
George Cole to the s^d Pereg^e Brown had been duly acknowledged
and recorded in the records of Baltemore County Court within the
time Limitted by the Laws then in force, the want of Acknowledging
or Recording the same deed or any Law Statute useage or Custome
to the Contrary Notwithstanding

Acts of
May, 1718,
ch. 12

An Act to Enable Benjamine Howard to sell Certain Lands in Ann
arundell County and for the Entailing other Lands belonging to
the said Benjamine in Baltemore County.
Whereas John Howard late of the South Side of Severn river
in Ann arundell County Gent: deced by his Last will and Testament
bearing date the twenty nineth day of December in the year of our
Lord Seventeen hundred & three, did give and bequeath unto his son
Benjamine Howard his Dwelling Plantacon whereon he then Lived
and all the Land adjoyning to it Dureing his Naturall Life, and to the
Lawfull begotten heirs of his body, for want of such heirs to goe to
the next of Blood in the name, as p the same will proved and recorded
in the Commissary Generall his Office of this province may Appear,
and whereas the said Plantation and Land Adjoyning to it are repre-
sented to be included in three Severall Tracts or parcells (that is to

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Say) Crouchfield, Originally Surveyed for one hundred and fifty
acres, and marsh, Surveyed for thirty acres, and Howards Discovery,
Surveyed for fifty acres, And whereas the said Benjamine Howard
Devisee as af^d hath petition'd this present Generall Assembly, that

for as much as the said Three tracts of Land are in a Maner Quite

Cut Downe and so much worne that they Can be but of Little or no
use to his Children, he may have leave given to bring in a bill to
Enable him to sell the said Lands and to make and Confirme an
Absolute Estate in fee Simple thereof to the purchaser, And that in
Lieu of the said Lands part of a tract of Land Called Harbrough,
Containing One hundred & Seventy five acres, Yates his Inheritance,
Containing One hundred and Seventy acres, and Howards point,
Containing thirty Seven acres, all in the possession of the said Ben-
jamine wherein he has an Absolute Estate in fee Simple, may be
Confirmed unto the said Benjamine for his Life and to the Lawfull
begotten heires of his body, for want of such heirs to Goe to the
next of Blood in the name, According to the true intent and meaning
of the Deceased's will af^d in Relation to the Lands first above
menconed.
And Forasmuch as the truth of the Premises is Sufficiently Testi-
fyed to this present Generall Assembly, and also that the Lands last
menconed are of much more Value then those first above named, so