Acts. 285

behalf be Certifyed to the same Prince Georges County Court and
there Lodged for the Perusall of the said Micajah Perry and Com-
pany their factors agents or assignes that shall Require the Same
without any fee for the same or for the Lodging thereof Saveing the
Right of the Lord Proprietarie his heirs and successors and of all
Bodies Politick or Corporate Provided Nevertheless that in Case the
said Mareen Duvall shall at any Time after the makeing such his
Oath as aforesaid be Convict of Willfull or Corrupt perjury or of a
Willfull Breach or noncumplyance with the Tennor of such Oath that
then the said Mareen upon Conviction shall be adjudged to stand
two hours in the pillory and have his Left ear Cut off and shall be
wholy Deprived of any the Benifitts Designed him by this Law and
shall from thenceforth be Lyable to be prosecuted for any Debt or
Demand whatsoever in the same Mannor as If this Act had never
been made, any thing herein Contained to the Contrary notwith-
standing. Provided Nevertheless that nothing in this Act contained
shall Extend or be Construed to Extend to Deprive the Reverend
Jacob Henderson from Enjoying the Benefitts and Advantages to
him of Right belonging on account of a Bond Passed from the said
Marreen Duvall to the said Henderson for the makeing Over and
Conveying of the Moyety of a Certain Tract of Land called How-
artons Range in fee Simple for the Considerations therein mentioned
but that the said Duvall shall be Impower'd by this Act and he is
hereby Impower'd to Convey the said Land in fee Simple to the said
Henderson in as full and ample manner as he Could or Ought to have
done had this Act never been made or had the said Mareen Duvall
been at Large at the Time of Executing the said Bond and the pur-
chase mony to be applyed to the use of Micajah Perry and Company
Merchants in London to be Vested as aforesaid.

Liber LL, 4
Acts
p. 510

An Act Impowering Mess^rs William Clayton of Talbot County
and James Earle and William Turbutt of Queen Ann's County to
sell of the Lands of Robert Smyth Esq^r late of Talbot County
aforesaid deced to pay to Richard Cole of Queen Ann's County &
Mary his wife the Daughter and heir of Renatus Smyth deceased
the Surviving Executor of the said Robert Smyth deced what the
said Renatus Smyth paid on Account of the said Robert Smyth
more then Effects Came to his hands And for the paym^t of his
Other Debts.
Whereas the said Renatus Smith in the Year of our Lord God
Seventeen hundred and Sixteen petitioned the then assembly setting
forth That Whereas the said Robert Smith Esq^r on or about the Last
of Jan^ry Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and Six made his Last
will and Testament in Writeing and amongst other things therein
Contained Appointed his Debts to be paid and for payment thereof

Acts of
Oct. 1720,
ch. 28
p. 511