Acts. 99

in the hands of the Clerk of said Town Appointed by said Com-
missioners to receive the same unapplied or Laid out for Use of the
said Town and the Commissioners or the Major Part of them being
Dead the said money Cannot be Applied as Directed in said Act
Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships
Governour and the upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same that the Justices of Baltimore County or the
Major part of them be and are hereby Authorized and Empowered
to take and receive the aforesaid money now in the hands of the
Clerk of said Town and to lay out & Apply the same to the use &
Benefit of s^d Town in the best manner as the said Justices or the
Major part of them shall think fit.

An Act to Cut of the Entail of two Acres of Land part of a Tract
Called new Years Giift.

Whereas the Vestry of Queen Caroline Parish in Ann Arundell
County and M^r Caleb Dorsey and John Dorsey his son of the said
County by their Humble Petition to this Present General Assembly
have set forth that Severall of the Inhabitants of Elkridge and some
Adjacent Places Some years ago Considering the Inconveniences
they were Exposed to by reason of their Living so remote, from their
Respective Parish Churches did make Voluntary Contributions for
building a Chapell of Ease having Obtained Leave of the Above
Caleb Dorsey to build the same upon a Certain Spot of a Tract of
Land Called New Years Gift then belonging to & in the Possession
of the said Caleb Dorsey with a Promise that he the said Caleb
Dorsey would with the first Conveniency Give & Convey the said
Spot Containing two Acres to the undertakers of the said Chappell
or in Case the same should in time Coming be made a Parish Church
to the Vestry of the Same And the af^d Inhabitants having some time
thereafter by their Petition Applied to the Assembly for having the
upper Parts of some Neighbouring Parishes Lopt of and Erected
into a Parish by themselves the same was Granted & the said Chapel
became their Parish Church Whereupon the said Caleb Dorsey
was ready According to Promise to Convey the said two Acres of
Land to the Vestry for the use of Queen Caroline Parish But so it
hapned that before he Could Conveniently Do it as the Law Directs
in such Cases (the said Caleb not thinking then of his Promise
aforesaid) did give & make Over a Part of the said Tract of Land
including the said two acres to the said John Dorsey & his heirs by
way of Entail so that now it is not in the Power of Either of them
to Convey the said two Acres to the said Vestry as the said Caleb
declares he fully intended and the said John that he is still desirous
that the said promise be complied with altho both had forgot it at
the time the said Entail was made the scituation and bounds of the

Chap. XII
p. 182