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Assembly in such Case made and provided which may hereafter
be an Objection to the Validity of his Title And forasmuch as the
Premisses have been made appear to this present Generall Assembly
It is humbly Prayed that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the
Right Honourable 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
Deed and Every Clause therein be as Good and valid in Law to all
Intents and Purposes Provided the same be recorded in Ann Arun-
dell County Records within six months After the End of this present
Sessions of Assembly as if the same had been Recorded within the
time Limited by Law Any want of Recording or any Law Statute
or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding Saving to the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary his heirs and Successors and
to all Bodys Politick and Corporate and to all others not mentioned
in this Act their Respective Rights.

Liber LL, 5
Acts

An Act for the Reliefe of Edward Parish of Ann Arundell County.

Whereas it hath been represented to this present General Assembly
by the Humble Petition of Edward Parrish of Ann Arundell County
that one Thomas Pratt of the same County in the year Sixteen hun-
dred Eighty and Six made his Last Will and Testament in writing
and amongst Other things did give unto his Executors therein after-
named Fifty acres of Land Called Hog Harbour to be sold and Dis-
posed of for the payment of his Debts and that in Pursuance thereof
a Certain John Waters and Richard Goate Executors in the said
Will named on the thirteenth Day of August Sixteen hundred Eighty
and Eight for and in Consideration of the sume of Five Thousand
Pounds of Tobacco Sold and Conveyed the same to one Robert
Wade and that the said Deed of Bargain and Sale on the Day & year
Last mentioned was Acknowledged before Edward Dorsey and
Richard Beard Gent, then two of the Justices of Ann Arundell
County and is since by Divers Alienations and mutations of Posses-

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sions become the Right of and Vested in the said Edward Parrish
But for that it hath so happened that the said Deed was not recorded
According to the Directions of the Act of Assembly in that Case
made and Provided And in regard that the said Edward Parrish
hath Sufficiently proved the severall Allegations as also made it
Appear that the said Deed was made in Pursuance of the Will of the
said Thomas Pratt and Acknowledged by his Executors for a Valu-
able Consideration it is humbly Prayed that it may be Enacted And
be it Enacted by the Right honourable 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 Deed and Every Clause therein be and is hereby De-
clared to be as good and Valid in Law to all Intents and Purposes

p. 235