Acts. 267

appears to have been the Neglect of his Lordship the Late Lord
Proprietors Officer that has been the Sole Cause of putting the said
Benjamin to the Speciall Application for a Law to be made in his
favour he has therefore petitioned this present Generall Assembly
for releif. And for that it seems reasonable that the said Benjamin
should be put in a Condition to obtain his Lordp^s pattent for so
much of the said Land as he has proved the bounds of w^ch for want of
Evidences to prove the particular Courses and Distances from the
last mentioned bounded tree to the first beginning so as to Contain
the said Six hundred and forty Acres he is Content to have described
by a Straight line from the said Last to the first tree w^ch will include
but about three hundred and thirty one Acres. All which seeming
to this Generall Assembly, most agreable to right and Justice it is
therefore humbly prayed that it may be Enacted.
And Be it Enacted by the R^t honourable the Lord Prop^ry by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governeur and the
upper and lower houses of Assembly and by the Authority of the
same that the said Benjamin Howard his heires or Assignes have as
Good a Right and be in the same Condition to obtain his Lordp^s Pat-
tent in all respects, for the said three hundred and thirty one Acres of
Land described as aforesaid as if a Certificate According to the De-
criptions of this Act and the intent of the said John Howard had been
duly returned and entered upon Record any Defect of a Certificate
thereof or any latter Survey by Rich^d Colegate of Baltemore County
Gent, who has been heard to this Act or any former Law or practice
to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding, Saving to his Majesty
his heires & Successors, and to the R^t Honble the Lord Prop^ry his
heires and Successors & to all bodies politick & to all persons not
mentioned in this Act their Just Rights.

Liber LL,

Acts

An Act to invest an Estate in fee to John Clements of Queen Anns
County in a Certain lott in the Town of Cambridge in Dorchester
County

Whereas the aforesaid John Clements in the Year Seventeen hun-
dred and one purchased of one Thomas Taylor of Dorchester County
Decd the ninth lott at the Town of Cambridge in Dorchester County
Containing three parts of an Acre of Land with one Dwelling house
which formerly the said Thomas Taylor lived in as by the Deed
thereof relation being thereto had may more fully and at Large
appear.

Acts of
April, 1720,
ch. 8
p. 483

And Whereas Coll Thomas Ennalls of Dorchester County has
since the making the said Deed taken up the said Lott and pretends to
hold an Estate in Fee in the same by Virtue of an Act of Assembly
of this Province made in the Year one thousand and Seven hundred
& Six entituled an Act for advancement of trade and erecting ports
and Towns within this pvince of Maryland. And the said Thomas

p. 484