Acts. 327

she have power to lease for her life the said three hundred and fifty
acres of Land to any person who shall agree with her for the same.
And be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor
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 the said Elizabeth Major wife of the said Edmond have
hereby full power and authority to lease for her life to any person
Capable to take such lease the Lands above mentioned Either for
an Yearly Rent or for a Sum in Gross, And that the person so leasing
or purchasing of her by Vertue of this Act have as good and Indea-
feazable an Estate in the same Lands as if the same Edmond Major
had Actually Consented to and Joyned in makeing the same lease or
Sale and that the aforesaid Lessee or Purchaser on any Action
brought against him or her by the said Edmond for any Rent or Sum
of Money or Tobacco pretended to be Due for or by reason of such
Demise or Sale may plead the Generall Issue and give the Special
Matter and this Act in Evidence And that thereupon such Court
before whom such Action or Suit shall be Depending shall Judge &
Determine in favour of the aforesaid lessee or purchaser And Ad-
judge to him or her Costs of suit any Law Usage Coverture of the
said Elizabeth or absence of her the said husband or any Other Matter
to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Provided Always and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority Ad-
vice and Consent af^d that the money or Other Effects Arising by
such Lease or Sale of the lands aforesaid be wholy Appropriated
during the absence of the said Edmond towards the Support & Main-
tenance of her the said Elizabeth and her aforesaid Children And
that the same Money or Other Effects be not any ways Subject to any
Attachment Condemnation Judgment or Recovery by any Creditor
of the said Edmond for Any Debt already or that may be hereafter
created by him and that this Act pleaded in any Court within this
Province be Sufficient to barr any person or persons of any such
Claim Any Law Usage or any Other Matter to the Contrary not-
withstanding. Saving to his most Sacred Majesty his heirs and
Successors and to the Right Hon^ble the Lord Proprietary his heirs
and Successors And to all bodies Politick and Corporate and all
Others not mentioned in this Act their Severall & respective Rights.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

A Supplementary Act to An Act Intituled An Act Declaring the
Rights of three Lotts Originally laid Out in Annapolis for the
uses therein Mentioned.
Whereas by An Act of Assembly Intituled An Act Declaring the
Rights of three Lotts Originally laid Out in Annapolis for the uses
therein mentioned It is Enacted that three Certain Lotts that is to
say One Lott for the Reverend the Rector or Vicar or Lecturer of

Acts of
Oct. 1723,
ch. 14

p. 596

(Supple-
ments 1718,
ch. 8)