Acts. 277

An Act for the naturalization of John Peter Zenger of Kent
County Printer and his Children.

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor by and
with the advice and Consent of his Lordships Governeur and the
uper and Lower houses of Assembly and the authority of the same
that the said John Peter Zenger being an alien Borne in the uper
Palatinate on the Rhine, and all his Children already borne and
hereafter to be Borne within this Province shall for ever hereafter
be adjudged Deemed and Taken as his Majesties true Lawfull free-
born Subjects of this Province and that they and Every of Them by
the authority af^d be Enabled and adjudged To all Intents and pur-
poses to Demand and Challenge have hold and Enjoy any Lands
Tenements Rents and Hereditaments to Which They or any of them
might in any wise be Entituled as if they and Every of Them had
been his Majestyes free and naturall Borne Subjects and Leige people
of this Province, and also that they and Every of Them be Enabled
to maintain prosecute avow Justifie and Defend all manner of
accons Suites pleas plaints and other Demands whatsoever as Lib-
erally frankly freely fully Lawfully and Securely as If they and
Every of Them had been his Majesties naturall Borne Subjects and
Leige People of this Province any Law Statute Useage or Custome
to the Contrary in any wise Notwithstanding.

Liber LL, 4
Acts.
Acts of
Oct. 1720,
ch. 18
p. 498

An Act for Confirmation of Certain Deeds of Sale To William
Mathew Esq^r of Lands in Baltemore County.

Whereas a Certain W^m Mathew of Martin in the County of Sur-
rey Esq^r Purchased of a Certain Paul Collins, Samuel Palmer, Rich^d
Hutchens, Sarah Hutchens, Thomas Cleaver, Susannah Cleaver,
John Watson, and Alice Watson, Sundry Tracts of Land in Balte-
more County as by the Deeds Thereof by Way of Lease and Release
Entered on the Land Records of the Provincial Court of this Prov-
ince in the Book Marked T. p. number I from Page the two hundred
& fourtieth to the Two hundred and fifty third of the same Book &
by the originall Deeds produced To this Present Generall Assembly
appears Which Deeds appears to have been Duly proved to be the
acts and Deeds of the said Parties And Whereas the said William

Acts of
Oct. 1720,
ch. 19
p. 498

Matthew by his Power of Attorney Duely Executed & Proved Em-
powered Rich^d Bennett and Tho^s Bordley Esq^rs to sell and Dispose of
the said Lands in the said Deeds menconed who according To The
Powers to Them Given Did agree for and sell the same Lands to a
Certain Josias Middlemore of Baltemore County.
But That when the said Attorneys where about to Convey the
said Lands over to the said Middlemore they perceived that tho the
said Deeds from Collens and others to the said Mathew were Duly
Proved Yet that the same had never Been Duely Acknowledged by
the Attorneys appointed to Do the same one of which to witt William

p. 499