Acts. 601

and place the Money at Interest for the Purposes aforesaid It was
Enacted by an Act passed At the said Sessions that the said Caleb
should and might and was thereby empowered to Sell dispose of
and convey in fee Simple for the Consideration of the said thirty
Pounds Sterling the said forty nine Acres abutted and bounded by
the Metes Bounds Lines and Descriptions in the said recited Act
mentioned and expressed and it was by the said Recited Act further
Enacted that such Person or Persons who should buy and purchase
the said forty nine Acres and pay the Consideration Money should

try Virtue of such Purchase said by force of the said Recited Act be

vested with and siesed of an Estate in fee Simple of in and to the
said forty nine Acres of Land as by the said Act relation being
thereunto had may more at large appear And Whereas in pursuance
of the said Act the said Caleb Dorsey in his life time did Agree with
his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esquire for the Sale of the said
forty nine Acres for the Consideration of thirty Pounds Sterling
and the said Thomas Bladen Esquire by Virtue of the said Agree-
ment with the Consent and Approbation of the said Caleb Dorsey
took Possession of the said forty nine Acres and in Confidence of the
said Agreement and the performance thereof hath planted a Vine-
yard and made very considerable Improvements thereon but before
the Execution of any Deed or Deeds for the conveying the said
forty nine Acres to the said Thomas Bladen in fee Simple in pur-
suance of the said Agreement and the said Recited Act the said
Caleb Dorsey died by which means no Person is at present Author-

Liber
B. L. C.

ized or Impowered to sell and Convey the said forty nine Acres to
the said Thomas Bladen in fee Simple as aforesaid And Whereas
Richard Dorsey is uncle and Guardian to the said Mary and Eliza-
beth therefore for the carrying the said Agreement into Execution
and complying with the Intent and directions of the said Recited
Act Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the
same that the said Richard Dorsey shall and may and he is hereby
impowered upon Payment of the said thirty Pounds Sterling and
the Interest accruing thereon since the time his said Excellency
Thomas Bladen Esquire took Possession of the said forty nine
Acres to make and execute any Deed or Deeds or Conveyances in
Law for the assuring and conveying the said forty nine Acres to the
said Thomas Bladen his Heirs and Assigns for ever so as such Deed
or Deeds shall not contain any General or Special Warrantee to
affect the Estate of the said Richard Dorsey his Heirs or Assigns
And Be it further Enacted By the Authority Advice and Consent
aforesaid that the said Thomas Bladen shall and may by Virtue of
such Purchase and Deed or Deeds so to be Executed as aforesaid
be Vested with and Siezed of an Estate in fee Simple of in and to
the said forty nine Acres of Land And it is hereby further Enacted
by and with the Authority Advice and Consent aforesaid that the

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