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to Discharge But the said Mareen Duvall by his said petition further
Setting forth that he is very willing to part with all that he hath in
the world towards the payment of the aforementioned Debt if the
said Messears Perry and Company would Accept thereof and Grant
him his Libertie. And for that it seems to this Present Generall
Assembly that the said Mareen Duvall has not fallen under such
Circumstances by any Idleness haveing been always a pains Taking
Industrious planter, but mearly by Losses and Mismanagement of his
affairs and therefore for that the said Mareen and his Familly are
thought fitt objects of Charity and that his Lying in Goal Can be no
benifitt to the said Messeirs Perry and Company though it may
Prove a Ruin to him self and Burthen to the County it is prayed that
He may be Relieved according to his Petition and that It may be
Enacted And Be it Enacted by the right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov-
erneur and the upper and lower houses of Assembly and by the
Authority of the same that in Case the said Mareen Duvall shall
deliver up or cause to be Delivered up (in the Presence of two Jus-
tices of the peace in Prince Georges County whom the said Sherr.
is hereby required to Summons on the request of the said Mareen
Duvall at the said Mareen his now Dwelling Plantation at Some
Convenient time within three months after the End of this present
Session of Assembly) upon Oath all his real and Personall Estate
either in Possession Reversion Remainder or in trust or in or unto
which he hath any Claim or Interest whatsoever and do within the
time aforesaid Convey Assign Transfer and make Over unto any
Purchaser or Purchasers whatsoever all such his Estate Interest or
Claim aforesaid after such manner as by the said Purchaser or
Purchasers shall be thought fitt or by his or their Councill Learned
in the Law shall be reasonably devised or required at the Cost and
Charges of such Purchaser or Purchasers as aforesaid so as the said
Mareen Duvall be not burrthened with any warranty's thereby Other
than from himself and those that Claim by from or under him and
that the Purchase money ariseing on the Sale of the said real and
Personall Estate shall be paid to and lodged in the hands of Thomas
Bordley of the City of Annapolis Esq^r for the use of the said
Micajah Perry and Company and that the said Mareen Duvall at the
time of such his Surrender and transferring of his Estate as afore-
said shall take his Solemn Oath before the said Justices so to be
Summoned as aforesaid to the Effect following Viz. I Mareen

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Duvall do solemnly Swear that the Goods Lands Debts and Effects
which I have delivered up and menconed in a Certain Schedull Signed
by me and remaining in the hands of the Sherr. of Prince Georges
County, is the whole Estate both Real and Personall of my own in
Possession or that I have any Title to in the world and that I have
not any Estate goods or Effects of any kind whatsoever left either in

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