288 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

William Turbutt of Queen Anns County Gent or Any Two of them by
Virtue of this present Act shall [be] and are hereby fully and Amply
Authorized and Empowered to sell and dispose of so much of the
Lands whereof the said Robert Smith dyed possessed Excepting such
lands as have been already sold by such persons who had right to
sell the same since the decease of the said Robert Smith whether De-
vised by his will or not as will pay and discharge the sume of Seven

p. 514

hundred and Thirty four pounds nineteen shillings and Six pence
the Ballance due to the said Richard Cole and Mary his wife of the
Afores^d Eleven hundred and nine pounds nineteen shillings and Six
pence af^d what the said Renatus Smith paid on Account of the said
Robert Smith more than Effects Came to his hands And as will pay
and discharge the Other debts remaining due from the said Robert
Smyth's Estate To which use the said Commissioners are to apply
the purchase mony of the Lands they shall so sell and to no Other
use whatsoever and make or Cause to be made to any purchaser or
purchasers of such Lands and their heirs forever a good Sure and
Indefeazable Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple any Law Statute
usage or Custome to the Contrary notwithstanding. And be it
further Enacted That the Commiss^rs af^d for their Charge and Trouble
in and about the Sales of the said Lands shall be allowed five pounds
by the hundred on the mony or Tobacco That shall arrise on Such
Sales to be by them deducted out of the said Mony or Tobacco so
arrising as aforesaid

Acts of
Aug. 1721,
ch. 5
p. 520

An Act for the Naturalization of Joseph Lazear and Gustavus Hes-
selius of Prince George's County and their Children, and Allso
Christian Geist of the City of Annapolis Gent.

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by
and with the Advice and consent of his Lordships Governeur and the
upper and lower houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same,
that Joseph Lazear of Prince George's County planter born under the
Dominions of the Emperor of Germany and his Children Joseph,
Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Mary and Deborah, Lazear born in this
Province Gustavus Hesselius of Prince George's County aforesaid
Limner, born under the Dominions of the King of Sweden and his
Daughter Mary Hesselius born in this Province, and all and every
of them, and the said Children born within this Province, and allso
Christian Geist of the City of Annapolis in Ann arundell County
Gentleman, born under the Dominions of the said King of Sweden
be and in all things [are] adjudged taken reputed had held and Gov-
erned as his Majestys Naturall born Subjects of this Province and
that they and every of them by the authority aforesaid be Enabled
and adjudged to all intents and purposes 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 intituled to within