326 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

Prisoners therein mentioned, be & is hereby revived and Declared to
be of as full force and Effect to all Intents Constructions and Pur-
poses whatsoever for the releif and Discharge of the aforesaid Wil-
liam Griffin and William Jarvis and shall be Executed and Performed
by the Present Sheriff of Calvert County in the same manner after
the end of this Present Sessions of Assembly as if the same had
been Enacted De Novo this Sessions. Provided always that the said
William Jarvis and William Griffin be and are hereby Declared to be
Discharged and Acquitted from all fees Due to the former or present
Sheriff of Calvert County on Account of their Imprisonment any
thing in the former Act Contained to the Contrary thereof notwith-
standing.

Acts of
Oct. 1723,
ch. 13
p. 595

An Act for Releif of Elizabeth Major of Prince Georges County by
Impowering her notwithstanding her Coverture to Lease for her
life the Lands therein mentioned.

Whereas Elizabeth Major by her Petition has humbly set forth
to this Present Generall Assembly that her former husband James
Brooke of the County aforesaid Gent Died Intestate so that Right of
Dower of and in all the Lands the said James was seized of at the
Time of his Death Accrewed to her And that sometime after the
Decease of the said James she Intermarried with a Certain William
Joseph late of the County aforesaid Gent now also Deceased between
whom in his life time and Roger Brooke Brother & heir at Law of
the said James it was agreed by Sufficient Deeds in Law that the said
William Joseph and she the said Elizabeth should remain in peaceable
possession of a Certain parcell of Land supposed by the meets and
bounds thereof to Contain three hundred and fifty acres with all
Improvements thereon being Parts of two Tracts of Land Called
Brooke point and Brookes reserve during the natural Life of the said
Elizabeth in Satisfaction of her Dower of all her said first hus-
bands lands and that by vertue of the said Agreement after the Death
of the said William Joseph she the said Elizabeth became solely
seized of the said three hundred & fifty Acres of Land in right of her
Dower as aforesaid and being so seized Afterwards Intermarried
.with a Certain Edmond Major of the County aforesaid Merchant
by whom she had two Children That the said Edmond thro' Mis-
fortunes Occasioned by Decay of the Tobacco Trade became In-
volved in Unhappy Circumstances and thro' fear of Arrest by his
Creditors privately went to England leaving the said Elizabeth
intirely Destitute of means to maintain herself and the said Edmonds
two Children as af^d as also four Others she had by the said William
Joseph her second husband and humbly Prayed that it might -be
Enacted by this present Generall Assembly That notwithstanding
her Coverture and the absence of her said husband Edmond Major