482 Assembly Proceedings, May 8-June 2, 1750.

Liber B. L. C.

more than the whole amount of his Personal Estate beside a large
Debt due to the Paper Currency office, That your Petitioner
Araminta having paid away the said Estate as far as it would go
(as by the Commissary Generals office may appear) there is a Debt
due to the said Office antecedent to a Marriage Settlement made on
your Petitioner Araminta her Marriage with the said Alexander,
which Marriage Settlement was dated on the twenty fifth Day of
July Seventeen hundred and thirty eight That the said William
Alexander dyed Possessed of one Messuage and two Acres or a
hundred and twenty square Perches of Land more or less lying in
Annapolis in which M^r George Atkinson now lives part of the said
Alexanders Real Estate and which by distance of your Petitioners
is rather a Charge than Proffit to the said Estate and likely so to
continue or run to decay so as to be of no Benefit to the said Alex-
anders Heir at Law And forasmuch as it has been made appear unto
this General Assembly That the said William Alexander at the time
of his Death dyed Indebted more than all his Personal Estate did
amount to, and that the said Executrix has already paid and is

Chargeable to pay more than all the deceased's Estate will amount

to, And that there is about the sum of four hundred Pounds Current
Money due and owing to the Commissioners of the Loan Office
upon Interest Antecedent to the Twenty fifth Day of July Seventeen
hundred and thirty eight aforesaid And Whereas Robert Alexander

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the Testator's Son and Heir at Law is a minor now about Eleven
Years of Age to whom the said Message and Tenement descends
by Inheritance and that before he arrives at full Age the aforesaid
Principal Money with the Interest accruing thereon will Totally
exhaust the Value of the said Messuage and Tenement and his
whole Real Estate And it appearing to this General Assembly that
the giving leave to Sell and Dispose of the aforesaid Messuage and
Tenement may not only be a benefit to the Widow and Executrix
aforesaid but likewise to the Heir at Law to preserve the rest of
Real Estate clear of Incumbrances when he comes of Age Be it
therefore 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 at any time within Six Months from and after
the end of this present Session of Assembly it shall and may be
Lawfull for the said George Catto and Araminta his Wife Execu-
trix aforesaid or the Survivor of them, and they are and the Sur-
vivor of them is hereby impowered after three Weeks Advertise-
ment in the Maryland Gazette of the day of Sale in Publick manner
by Vendue to sell Dispose and Convey all and singular the afore-
said Messuage and Tenement for the best price that can be gotten
in Current Money in fee Simple in as full and ample manner as the
aforesaid William Alexander could or might have done in his life-