Acts. 253

herein before mentioned is And Whereas the truth of the Premises
is sufficiently made appear to this Present Generall Assembly Be it
therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by

Liber
B. L. C.

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 said Thomas and Katherine his wife be and are hereby
vested with an Estate in Fee Simple in the aforesaid thirty nine
Acres of Land as fully and amply as if the same had been devised
to the said Katherine by her said Father in Fee Simple and that the
said Thomas and Katherine have full Power and Authority to sell
and Dispose thereof as fully and amply as if the same Land had not
been Entailed and the aforesaid One hundred Acres of Land called
Crackburn's Purchase be and is hereby Entailed in the same manner
and to the same Uses as the aforesaid Lands devised to the said
Katherine by the will of her Father Any Law Statute Usage or
Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding Saving to his most Sacred
Majesty his Heirs and Successors to his Lordship the Right Honour-
able the Lord Proprietary his Heirs and Successors and to all Bodies
Politick and Corporate and all others not mentioned in this Act
their Several and respective Rights.

p. 221

An Act Investing Archibald Douglas of Cecil County Son and Heir
of William and Mary Douglas deceased with an Estate in fee
Simple in the One Moiety of a Tract of Land called the Levell or
Scutts Levell lying in Baltimore County

Whereas the said Archibald Douglas by his humble Petition to
this General Assembly has set forth That at a Session of Assembly
held for this Province the first Day of March Anno Domini one
thousand Seven hundred and thirty four that his Father William
Douglas and his Mother Mary both which are since dead by their
Petition to the General Assembly set forth that on the fourth Day of
May One thousand Seven hundred and three John Scutt late of
Baltimore County made his last Will and Testament and amongst
other things Devised to his Daughter Mary Scutt the then wife of the
said William Douglas his then Dwelling Plantation with two tracts
of Land belonging to the same the one known by the name of Morn-
ings Choice the other by the name of Mornings Choice Addition to
her the said Mary and to her Heirs of her Body after the Decease of
his then wife and in Case the said Mary should happen to dye with-
out Issue then he gave the said two tracts of Land and Plantation to
his Daughter Sarah Hart and her Heirs for Ever and shortly after
died, and that the said Tracts of Land were indifferent and lay
incommodious to the then Petitioners And further that the said
William was seised in fee of four hundred Acres of Land in Cecil
County on the Branches of Bohemia River being part of Vulcans
Rest and that he had six Sons and five Daughters by his said Wife
and Prayed that the Entail of the Land in Baltimore County before

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