224 Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745.

Session Laws
Continuance
of this Act

This Act to continue for three Years, from the said first Day of
October, and unto the End of the next Session of Assembly which
shall happen after the said three Yeatrs.

Liber B.L.C.
Chap. VII
p. 323

An Act to Impower and Direct the Clerk of Ann Arundel County
Court to enter and record among the said County Records a Deed
of Bargain and Sale from W^m Mitchel, Edward Mitchell and
Grace his Wife to Mordecai Moore Deceased.

Whereas Samuel Preston Moore Margaret Moore Richard Moore
Mordecai Moore Thomas Moore and Charles Moore Grandchildren
to Mordecai Moore late of Ann Arundel County Deceased by their
humble Petition to this present Generall Assembly have Set forth
that their Grandfather Mordecai Moore on the Seventeenth Day of
August Seventeen hundred and Eleven for the Consideration of
twenty five Pounds Sterling Purchased from a certain William
Mitchel Edward Mitchel and Grace his Wife the Moiety of a Tract
of Land lying in Ann Arundel County Called Mitchels Chance Con-
taining two hundred and five Acres and on the same Day by Deed
of Bargain and Sale had the same Conveyed to him and acknowl-
edged as the Act of Assembly in such Cases Directs but thro' mis-
take or forgetfulness Neglected to git the said Deed recorded by
which means they the said Petitioners to whom the same Land is
Devised will Intirely be Devested of their right unless they have
relief And fforasmuch as it appears to this present Generall Assem-
bly That the Allegations set forth in the petition af^d are true and
that the consideration money for the Land af^d hath been realy and
Bona fide paid and Publick Notice given of the Petitioners Inten-
tions to apply to this Assembly for relief in the premisses It is there-
fore humbly prayed That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietarie 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 Clerk
of Ann-Arundel County Court af^d for the time being shall and may
and he is hereby authorized and required to receive the Deed af^d
from the af^d William Mitchel Edward Mitchel and Grace his Wife
to Mordecai Moore Deceased into his office and the same to enter on
record amongst the records of the same County together with the
acknowledgement thereon and that the same Deed being so recorded
and entered within Six Months from the end of this present Session
of Assembly shall be and is hereby Declared and Enacted to be as
Good and Valid in Law to all intents Constructions and Purposes
whatsoever as if the same had been recorded according to the Direc-
tions of the Act of Assembly in force at the time of perfecting the
same the Neglect or Omission af^d or any other matter or thing to
the contrary Notwithstanding Saving to his most Sacred Majesty
his heirs and Successors the right honourable the Lord Proprietarie