378 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 5
Acts

any Lands Tenements Rents or Hereditaments whatsoever to which
they might be any ways Entituled as if they had been naturall Born
Subjects within This province and be Enabled to maintain prosecute
avow Justifie and Defend all and all manner of Action or Actions
Real or personall Suits plaints pleas and other Demands whatsoever
as Liberally frankly freely fully Lawfully and Effectually to all
Intents and purposes as if they had been naturall born Subjects

Acts of 1725,
ch. 17
p. 72

An Act to Enable Orlando Griffith and Katherine His wife to sell
the Moyetie or half part of a Certain tract of Land hereafter men-
tioned and for Intailing other Land in Lieu thereof.
Whereas the said Orlando Griffith and Katherine his wife by
their pet^o to this Generall Assembly have sett forth That a Certain
John Howard of Ann Arundell County Dec^d by His Last will and
Testament Did among other Bequests therein Give to his Two
Daughters Rachel Howard and Katherine Howard all That Par-
cell of Land Called Howards Timber Neck Lyeing att the mouth
of Whetstone to be Equally Divided Betwixt them During their
naturall Lives and to the Lawfull Begotten Heirs of their Body's
And for want of such heirs To fall to his Son Benjamin Howard
and his heirs and Assigns for Ever which said Katherine Howard
in the Bequest af^d is the now wife of the said Orlando Griffith and
by whom He has Issue which said Tract of Land was Originally
Laid Out for two Hundred acres but upon Inspection had It's found
that it does not Contain that Quantity within The bounds thereof
but if the said Catherine had the quantity Designed her it is but
one hundred acres which the said Orlando Griffeth and Katherine
his wife by their said pet^o Alledges is too small to make a Conve-
nient Settlement or To Induce them to Lay out much money in
the Improvement Thereof and the said Orlando Griffith and Kath-
erine his wife by Their said pet^o further sett forth that a Cer-
tain Charles Ridgely who has Intermarried w^th the af^d Rachel
Howard in The Bequest aforesd Mentioned to whom the Other
Moyetie or half part of the Land af^d is given Is Settled on her
the said Rachel's part of The said Land and is Desirous to buy the
Other part thereof belonging To the said Orlando Griffith and Kath-
erine his wife Provided they Could Obtain An Act to pass in their
favour To Cutt of the Intaile Af^d so far as Relates to their part
of the Land af^d And The said Orlando Griffith and Katherine his
wife Likewise Sett forth by their said pet^o that in Order to Obtain

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which Act they are willing that there should be Intailed by the said
Act one hundred Acres of Land in The same Maner as The Other
Land af^d Is Intailed Out of the Vacancie added by the said Orlando
Griffith to a Certain Tract of Land Given By The af^d John Howard
Likewise under Intaile To the af^d Katherine wife of The said Or-
lando Griffith Called Howards Luck which as the said Orlando