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Session
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the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That the abovementioned Act entituled, An Act for as-
certaining the Gauge and Tare of Tobacco Hogsheads, and to pre-
vent cutting, cropping, and defacing Tobacco taken on board Ships
or Vessels upon Freight, made at a Session of Assembly, begun and
held at the City of Annapolis, the Twentieth Day of April, Anno
Domini Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-six, be, and is hereby re-
vived and continued, to be and remain in full Force for and during
the Term of Three Years next ensuing, and unto the End of the
next Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the
said Three Years.
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Chap. VIII.
Liber
B. L. C.
p. 288
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An Act to enable Richard Dorsey of Anne Arundel County Gen-
tleman to sell and dispose of forty nine Acres of Land part of the
Estate of Mary Woodward and Elizabeth Woodward Infants.
Whereas Elizabeth Gin in her own Right, William Woodward
and Mary Holmes Trustees Devisees and Executors of Mary Wood-
ward deceased by their Deed dated the thirtieth day of September
One thousand seven hundred and thirty six for the Consideration
therein mentioned sold and conveyed to Achsah Woodward for Life
without Impeachment of Waste and from and after her Death to
her two Daughters the said Mary Woodward and Elizabeth Wood-
ward their Heirs and Assigns to be equally divided between them
as Tenants in Common the several following Tracts of Land lying
in Anne Arundel County aforesaid, viz. Dorseys Addition, Upper
Taunton Burntwood, and Howards Interest and all other the Lands
to the said several Tracts adjoyning, as the same are Contained
within the Metes and Bounds mentioned in a Survey lately made by
Master Henry Ridgley and Expressed in the said Deed as may ap-
pear by the Land Records of Anne Arundel County And Whereas
Caleb Dorsey late of the said Anne Arundel County deceased by his
Petition represented to the General Assembly in a Sessions of As-
sembly held on the twenty first day of September in the Year One
Thousand seven hundred and forty two that the said Achsah was
dead and that the said Mary and Elizabeth were then living to whom
the said Caleb was Grandfather and Guardian and further that the
said Caleb Dorsey had an Opportunity of letting upon Lease the
said Lands if he could be Enabled to sell forty nine Acres part of
the said Lands contained in the said Survey in fee for thirty Pounds
Sterling which was offered to the said Caleb and which upon a
Valuation made by Charles Carroll Esquire and Master John Worth-
ington was reckoned to be the utmost Price that the said forty nine
Acres could be worth and also that the said Caleb proposed to place
the said Money at Interest for the Benefit of the said Orphans and
in Trust to the same Uses as the said Land is Settled Wherefore
that the said Caleb might be enabled to sell the said forty nine Acres
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