Acts. 281.

purchas'd the same w^th the negroes & Stock thereon for the sume of
five hundred and fifty pounds Sterling, And Whereas in the Con-
veying the said Land from one person to another the Directions of
the Act of Assembly for Quieting possessions & secureing the Right
of Purchasers have not been strickly pursued in haveing the severall
Deeds & Conveyances herein before mentioned acknowledged and
Recorded within the time Limitted by that act, and that altho The
Estate of the said Robinson as Debtor to Brown is Lyable to be
Seized toward Satisfying the Crown in and of the said Browns
Effects yet that the usual Course of Law to Charge the same hath not
been Taken by the Crown which and the Defects in the Conveyances
allready mentioned may Render the Estate of the said Richard
Bennett in the said Land Disputable, Wherefore it is Most Humbly
pray'd That to avoid the same and to Coroborate the said Bennetts
Purchase from the Crown It may be Enacted and Be it Enacted by
the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by & with the advice and
Consent of his Lordships Governour [and] the uper and Lower houses

Liber LL, 4
Acts

of Assembly and by the authority of the same that the said Richard
Bennett his heirs and assignes for ever shall be by Vertue of his
said purchase & This Act Seis'd of a sure and Indefeazable Estate
of Inheritance in Fee Simple in the said Land and Every Part
Thereof in as full and Ample Manner as he should Could or Might
be If the Severall Deeds and Conveyances herein before mentioned
had been Duly Executed acknowledged and Recorded according to
the Intent meaning and Directions of the Laws of this Province and
as If the usual Course of Law had been Used or Taken to Charge the
Estate of the said Robinson with the money Due to the said Brown
to the Crown any Defect neglect or Omission Law Statute Usage or
Custom to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding Saveing to the
Right Hon^ble the Lord Proprietarie his heirs and Successors and all
Bodies Politique and Corporate and all others not mentioned in this
Act their Severall and Respective Rights

p. 503

A Supplementary Act to the Act for Relief of Thomas Manning of
Calvert County.

Whereas at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the Town and
Port of Annapolis in the County of Ann Arundell the Twenty Sixth
Day of March Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred & Seven An Act of
Assembly was then made Entituled an Act for Relief of Thomas
Manning of Calvert County, where in among other things therein
contained, Richard Johns and George Harris two of the Principall
Creditors of the said Thomas Manning were impowered to act as
Commissioners or Trustees in Discharge of Severall Matters required
of them by that Law, But forasmuch as the said Thomas Manning by
his humble Petition to this Present Generall Assembly has sett forth
that by reason of some accidents that happened after the makeing the
aforementioned Act he was rendred uncapable of performing what on

Acts of
Oct. 1720,
ch. 23
(Amends
1707, ch. 3)