Acts. 421

Province any want of Acknowledgment or any Law Statute Ussage
or Custome to the Contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding
Saving to his Lordship the Lord Proprietary his heirs and Successors
and all Bodies Politick and Corporate and all others not mentioned
in this Act their Severall and Respective rights

Liber LL, 5
Acts
p. 219

An Act to Confirm Two Deeds of Sale the one from George Oldfield
and Petronella his Wife and the other from Richard Carr Son
and heir at Law to a Certain John Carr of Cecill County De-
ceased to Casparus Augustine Herman.

Whereas Coll^o Ephrahim Agustine Herman by his humble Peti-
tion to this Generall Assembly has set forth that a Certain John Carr
of Cecill County Deceased by his Last Will and Testament bearing
Date the Thirtieth day of January anno Domini Sixteen Hundred

Acts of 1728,
ch. 13

p. 220

& Seventy five Six Amongst other things bequeathed his reall Estate
to his Wife and Children Equally to be Devided amongst them that
Casparus Herman Father to the said Ephrahim Augustine Herman
Purchased of a Certain George Oldfield and Petronella his Wife
the Relict and one of the Legatees of the said John Carr a Certain
tract or parcel of Land Containing four hundred and Fifty Acres
of Land being part of a Tract of Land Called S^t Johns Manner
which said Four Hundred and fifty Acres was by the aforesaid
George Oldfield and Petronella his Wife for a Valuable Consider-
ation in due manner of law conveyed to the said Casparus Herman
Save the conveyance was Omitted to be recorded in Due time
that the said Ephrahims Father also purchased from Ann Johnson
one other of the legatees and Daughter to the said John Carr One
other Part of the said S^t Johns Mannor containing four hundred
and fifty Acres which was duly Conveyed as Aforesaid and Recorded
That the said Casparus Father to the said Ephrahim Augustine
Herman also Purchased from Richard Carr Son and heir at Law
to the said John Carr all the right and title of him the said Rich-
ard to the said Tracts of Land Part of S^t Johns Mannor as Aforesaid
by Deed Duly made and Acknowledged and paid the Consideration
money in the said Severall Deeds Exprest all which Allegations ap-
pear to be true to this Generall Assembly, And the said Ephrahim
Augustine Herman further praying that forasmuch as that his Father
Died in a short time after the making the Several Deeds Aforesaid
and he the said Ephrahim Augustine being very young at the time
of his Fathers Death and not knowing till lately but that the said
Deeds were recorded, Be it Therefore Enacted by the Right Hon-
ourable the Lord Proprietary by and with the Advice and Consent of
his Lordships Governeur and the upper and Lower Houses of As-
sembly and the Authority of the same that the said Deeds and Every
Article Clause and Covenants therein Contained and Expressed shall
be as good Effectuall and Valid in Law to all intents and Purposses

p. 221