An Act to Direct and Impower the Clerk of Prince Georges County
to enter and record among the Records of the said County a Deed
of Bargain and Sale from John Nevil William Collier and Thomas
Bond to John Boyd of a Tract of Land therein mentioned.
Whereas John Boyd of Prince Georges County by his Petition
to this Generall Assembly hath set forth that he is possessed of a
Parcell of Land containing one hundred and Sixty Acres being part
of a Larger Tract of Land called Turkey Thickett Lying in Prince
Georges County afd which was Conveyed to him by John Nevil
William Collier and Thomas Bond by Indenture bearing Date the
ninth Day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven
hundred thirty and two and the same Day acknowledged by the said
Parties and their Wifes before Messrs Turnor Wootten and William
Murdack then Justices of the said County That he has paid the Con-
sideration money in the said Deed mentioned and that being ignor-
ant in the premisses he has omitted recording the said Deed by which
means his Estate in the said Land is rendered precarious and the
more so as the parties to the said Deed are in parts unknown to him
and has prayed that an Act may pass Impowering the Clerk of Prince
Georges County to record the afd Deed and that such recording may
have the same Effect as if done within the Space and Term of six
months from the Date of the Deed afd all which being fully and
clearly made appear to this Generall Assembly it is therefore prayed
that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary by and with the advice and consent of his
Lordships Governour and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assem-
bly and the authority of the same that the Clerk of Prince Georges
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