Acts. 261

Hicks & John Davis their Damages and Costs as aforesaid or their
proportion according to the Value of the Estates devised them that
then in such Case such heir or heirs devisee or devisees shall have
such Lands in the same manner they Could have held the same by the
Will of the said Thomas Smithson of Talbott County and Tho^s
Smithson of Dorchester County as if this Act had never been made
any thing in this Act to the Contrary notwithstanding Saving to the
said Lord Prop^ry his heirs & Successors, & all bodies Politick &
Corporate and all others not mentioned in this Act their Severall and
respective rights.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

An Act for the Naturalization of Herman Kinkee a Dutchman & his
Children Peter Manadoe a Frenchman and his Children of Cecill
County John Laviele a Frenchman of Calvert County, James
Parandier & John Parandier of Charles County.
Be it Enacted by the Right honourable the Lord Prop^ry by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governour & the upper &
Lower houses of Assembly and by the Authority of the same, that
Herman Kinkee of Cecill County a Dutchman born in Holland, Peter
Manadoe in Cecill County born under the Dominion of the French
King, John Laviele of Calvert County being Likewise born under the
Dominion of the French King, James Parandier & John Parandier
being Likewise born under the Dominion of the French King and
all and Every of them and all their Children already born and here-
after to be born within this Province shall forever hereafter be
adjudged Deemed and taken as true lawfull Free born Subjects, of
the Crown of Great Brittam within this Province and be & are
hereby Enabled to purchase have hold and Enjoy any real Estates of
inheritance in this province and to hold maintain and Defend any
Action or Actions, real or personal in any his Lordp^s Courts of
Record of this Province, and to have hold and Enjoy all Priviledges
and Freedoms Whatsoever as any his Majestys Naturall born Sub-
jects of this Province, any Law Usuage or Custom to the Contrary
notwithstanding.

Acts of
April, 1720,
ch. 2
p. 477

An Act for the Relief of Ephraim Gover and to invest him with an
Estate in fee Simple in the Lands therein Mentioned.

Whereas Thomas Holdsworth of Calvert County Gent. Deceased
for and in Considⁿ of the Sum of Two hundred pounds Sterling to
him in hand paid by Ephraim Gover of Calvert County planter did
by his bond bearing date the Seventh Day of Aprill, in the Year of
our Lord Seventeen hundred and Eighteen bind himself in the
penalty of four hundred pounds sterl, to sell and Convey unto the
said Ephraim Gover, his heirs & Assigns for ever, three tracts of
Land lying in Prince Georges County, one Called Dear bought, one
other Called Mosshell bank, and the third Called Bacon Hall Contain-

Acts of
April, 1720,
ch. 3