268 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

Ennalls Since the taking up of the said lott has built a house on part
thereof and some part of the said lott the said Enalls has has given
to the Inhabitants of the County aforesaid to build a Court house on,
on w^ch there is a Court house now built so that the said John
Clements is now wholly kept out of his Just right to the said lott, &
for his releif in the premisses the said John Clements has petitioned
this Generall Assembly, and for that the truth of the premisses is
sufficiently made appear, and that the said John Clements Case most
properly requires an Equitable releif by an Act to be past in his
favour the Orig^le Records of the said Town att the first laying out
thereof in the Year Sixteen hundred Eighty four being not to be
found, in which Records the said John Clements right remains, It
is therefore humbly prayed that it may be Enacted.
And Be it Enacted by the R^t Hon^rble the Lord Prop^ry by and with
the advice & Consent of his Lordp^s Govern^r & the upper and Lower
houses of Assembly & by the Authority of the same, that the said
John demons shall have hold and enjoy an Estate in fee Simple to
him his heires & Assignes for ever in the af^d lott of Ground anything
in the aforesaid Act of Assembly made in the Year Seventeen hundred
& Six the taking up the said lott by the said Efialls or the Improve-
ments thereon made as aforesaid, or any other Law Statute usuage
or Custom to the Contrary in any wise Notwithstanding Saving to
the said Lord Prop^ry his heirs and Successors and all bodies Politick
& Corporate and all others not mentioned in this Act their Severall
and respective rights.

Acts of
April, 1720,
ch. 10
p. 485

An Act for giving further Time to the Severall Tradesmen who
originally took up the new lotts within the Addition to the City
of Annapolis to improve the same.

Whereas, it appears to this present Generall Assembly that the
true intent and meaning of a Certain Clause Contained in an Act of
Assembly made att a Session of Assembly begun and held att the
City of Annapolis on the twenty second day of Aprill Anno Dom.
One thousand seven hundred and Eighteen, Entituled an Act for the
Seiling all Disputes concerning the bounds of the Severall Lotts w^th
in the City of Annapolis and Confirming the same to the Respective
takers up Improvers and purchasers thereof and for laying out Ten
Acres of Land out of the Town pasture into twenty Lotts more to
be added to the said City was purely designed for the Encouragement
of poor Tradesmen to Come and inhabit within the City aforesaid
and to Carry on their respective trades therein.
And Whereas Severall Tradesmen who were Originall takers up
of the aforesaid new Lotts have petitioned this present Generall
Assembly That some particular persons not living within the said
City nor being tradesmen have taken the advantage of their not build-
ing on the Severall Lotts aforesaid w^th in the time prescribed by the