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tioned act and also that Whereas by the said Act it is Enacted that
no action Brought in the Chancery Court shall be Continued Longer
then Twenty five months from the Return of the Writts or other
process all such actions now Depending or hereafter to be brought
may be Continued for the Space of thirty months instead of the
twenty five months in the said Law mentioned Excepting always
where Evidences are Wanting from beyond Sea as by the same Law
is Provided. Provided allways that no Judgment Rendred to be
Rendred upon the Act or Default of any suitor or Suitors in pur-
suance of the aforementioned Act shall aid or be Construed to aid
any errors in the proceedings of such Suits which have hapned before
such Act or Default on which such Judgments are or shall be Ren-
dered any Thing in the s^d first menconed act to the Contrary not-
withstanding.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

An Act for Granting unto Edw^d Smith of the City of Annapolis
Sawyer one hundred and Twenty foot of Ground in the same
City to Keep a Sawyers Yard on for the Encouragement of his
Trade.

Whereas Edward Smith of the City of Annapolis Sawyer hath
for the Term of Eight Years or more followed the Business of Saw-
ing and Errected a Saw house for that Purpose whereby the said
City has been Greatly Benefitted and whereas the said Edw^d Smith
in Consideration of the Difficulties he has mett with att First, his
Continuall Industry in his Calling ever since till now, and for his

Acts of
Oct. 1720,
ch. 21

future Encouragement in the same, by his petition to this house has
Desired a grant of a Certain peice of Ground whereon his the said
Smiths Sawhouse now Stands Containing one hundred and Twenty
Foot in Length fronting the Water and Joyning upon a peice of
Ground formerly Vested by an Act of Assembly on a Certain Robert
Johnson Shipwright, for the Encouragement of his Trade.
Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by
and with the advice and Consent of his Lordships Governeur and
the uper and Lower houses of this present Generall Assembly and
the Authority of the same That a peice of ground Containing one
hundred and Twenty foot in Length fronting the water and Begining
at the Distance of Twenty foot from the Bounds of a peice of ground
formerly vested by an Act of Assembly on a Certain Rob^t Johnson
Shipwright (which Distance between the two Peices of Ground af^d
shall be and serve for a Landing place for the Conveniency of the
Neighbourhood) be Granted to the said Edw^d Smith and his heirs
for Ever according to the prayer of his Petition Provided that the
said Edw^d Smith his heirs or assignes Do build or Cause to be built,
and Keep or Cause To be Kept in good Repaire on the said Ground
a good Saw house to go with Two Saws and that he or they Saw
Yearly and Every Year five Thousand foot of Plank or Scantling

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