254 Assembly Proceedings, May 26-June 22, 1741.

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mentioned should be cut off and the said William and Mary invested
with a Fee Simple Estate in the same and that the Land in Cecil
County might be Entailed in lieu of the Lands in Baltimore in pur-
suance whereof An Act of Assembly passed And Whereas the said
Archibald Douglas has now further set forth by his said Petition
that the said John Scutt by his last Will and Testament did Give and
bequeath to his said Daughters Sarah Hart and Mary Scutt all that
Tract of Land called the Levell or Scutts Level lying in Baltimore
County aforesaid to be equally divided in Quantity and Quality
betwixt them Containing in the whole about five hundred Acres of
Land and to the Heirs of their Bodies for ever and that if either of
the said two Daughters should dye without Issue then the Survivor
and her Heirs to inherit the same with Remainder over which said
half part of the Levell or Scutts levell is intirely Useless to the said
Archibald Douglas and in fact was intended to be included in the
former Act of Assembly That the said Sarah Hart afterwards in-
termarried with a Certain Richard Owings of Baltimore County
deceased and has Issue of her Body, That the said Richard and

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Sarah during the life time of the said Richard were very willing that
the Entail of the said Marys Part of the Levell should be cut off and
that the said William and Mary should have been invested with a
Fee Simple therein on the Considerations in the former Act men-
tioned and that the said Sarah is still willing it may be so and that
the said Archibald Douglas be invested with a Fee Simple therein
and the said Archibald Douglas further by his humble Petition set
forth that his said Father in his life time passed a bond in a Consider-
able Sum of Sterling money to Benjamin Tasker Esquire for the
Conveying to him the Part of his said Mother in the said Land called
the Levell or Scutts Levell believing as he presumed the same was
included in the former Act of Assembly or not doubting but that in
Regard the Lands Entailed in Cecil County so much Exceeded in
Value the Lands aforesaid Entailed in Baltimore County and more
Especially for that the said Richard and Sarah were willing the
Entail should be cut off and that an Act might pass to that purpose
and the said Archibald further by his said Petition hath set forth
that his Father and Mother have left Seven Sons and four Daugh-
ters now living that the Personal Estate of his said Parents is but
small and that the bond so passed by his Father is now put in Suit
and that he is left without Law or Equity for his Defence and that
should he be obliged to pay it, it would Greatly impoverish him his
Brothers and Sisters and leave them without a Sufficient Stock to
Cultivate the Land he lives on in Cecil County before mentioned
he having no other to work and further that he hath lately repre-
sented to the said Sarah Owings the State of his Case who in Com-
passion and Justice to him his Brothers and Sisters hath signified her
Consent and Desire that the Entail of the Petitioners Mothers part
of the Levell or Scutts Levell in Baltimore County aforesaid should