Acts. 483

time which Consideration shall be, by the Purchaser or Purchasers
aforesaid and they are hereby directed and required to pay the same
into the hands of the Commissioners of the Loan Office to be by
them in the first place retained and applyed towards discharging the
Debts of the said Alexander in their said Office Antecedent to the
Twenty fifth Day of July Seventeen hundred and thirty eight afore-
said and the Surplus if any to be by them paid over to the said
Araminta Executrix as aforesaid of the said Alexander her Execu-
tors or Administrators to be by her or them retained and to become
Payable to the aforesaid Minor when he shall attain his full Age of
Twenty one Years and in Case the said George Catto and his Wife
Araminta or the Survivor of them shou'd neglect or refuse to make
Sale of the Premisses within the time Limitted by this Act, That
then and in such Case it shall and may be Law full to and for the
Sheriff of Ann Arundel County for the time being and he is hereby
directed and required within one Year from and after the end of the
aforesaid Six months in manner aforesaid to Sell Dispose of and
Convey the aforesaid Premises for the best Price that can be gotten
in Current money which Price shall be paid apply'd and disposed of
in manner before directed the said Sheriff for his Trouble and
Charge in Selling the same being allowed out of the said Purchase
Money the rate of two Pounds ten Shillings per Centum and no
more And Be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by and

with the Consent aforesaid That the same Security given by the

same Araminta upon taking out Letters Testamentary to the said
William Alexander shall stand Security and be Construed deemed
and taken to extend to her duty of Executrix under this Act any
Law Usage or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding Saving to
his most Sacred Majesty his Heirs and Successors The Right Hon-
ourable the Lord Proprietary his Heirs and Successors and all Bodys
Politick and Corporate and all others not mentioned in this Act
their Several and Respective Rights.

Liber B. L. C.

1 June 1750
Read & Assented to by
the Lower House of As-
sembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this Be a Law
Sam. Ogle

the great Seal in
Wax appendant

1 June 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up Ho.

A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act ascertaining the
Height of Fences, to prevent the Evil occasioned by the Multi-
tude of Horses, and restraining Horse-Rangers within this Prov-
ince; and to redress the great Evil accruing to this Province by
the Multiplicity of useless Horses, Mares, and Colts, that run in
the Woods.

No. 25
p. 507

Whereas, it is Enacted by the above-recited Act, " That when-
ever any Horse, Mare, or Gelding shall break into any Corn-field,

[Preamble.]