342 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 5
Acts

Neck as by the said will Recorded in the Office for Probat of Wills
may Appear That Soon after the said Augustine the devisor Dyed
and his son Ephraim Augustine dyed without Issue of his Body
lawfully begotten by means whereof the said Great Bohemia Man-
nour Descended unto the said Casparus Herman Father to the said
Ephraim Augustine Herman and Since the death of the s^d Casparus
the Same has descended to the said Ephraim Augustine his only Son
and heir at Law And the Only heire at Law of the said Augustine the
devisor And Whereas Also there has of late Years happened Severall
Law Suits in relation to the Bounds of said two tracts of Land Sev-
eral People pretending Titles thereto by later and Other Surveys in
defence of which Lands the said Ephraim Augustine Herman has
been at a great deal of trouble And Obliged to Expend great Sums
of Money and Tobacco to the very great Impoverishment of his Own
Estate And whereas Also there is now a suit depending in the
Provincial Court Concerning the great Bohemia Mannor which is
pretended to Affect a greater and more Valuable Part thereof then the
whole Little Bohemia which is now deemed Only to Contain but
about twelve hundred Acres or thereabouts is worth And fforas-
much as the truth of the Premises Sufficiently Appears to this present
Generall Assembly And Whereas likewise the Other Representatives
of the Said Casparus deced have had notice thereof And to the End
that the Said Ephraim Augustine Herman may be Enabled to Sell
the Said Little Bohemia or Middle Neck for the Payment of his
disbursements laid Out and Expended in defence of the said Tracts
of Land And that the residue of the Purchase Money of the said
Little Bohemia or Middle Neck be Applied for the defence and Settle-
ment of the great Bohemia Mannor According to the Intent of the
devisor It is therefore Prayed that it may be Enacted And be it
Enacted by the Right Hon^ble 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 the
said Ephraim Augustine Herman be hereby vested with an Absolute
Estate of Inheritance in ffee Simple to him and his heirs for Ever
in the said Little Bohemia or Bohemia Middle Neck And be hereby
Enabled to Convey an Absolute Estate of Inheritance in ffee Simple
thereof to Any Purchaser or Purchasers their heirs or Assigns And
that the same by vertue hereof be and remain an Absolute Estate of
Inheritance to the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof their Heirs or
Assigns in as full and Ample Manner as if the said Land had been
devised to him and his heirs for Ever by the will of the said Augustine
Herman the devisor without any Limitation of Estate therein Any-

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thing in the Said will or any Law Statute or Useage to the Contrary
notwithstanding Saving to the Right Hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry his
heirs and Successors And all Bodies Politick and Corporate and all
others not mentioned in this Act their Severall and respective Rights.