Acts. 367

objecting to various provisions contained in the above act and threat-
ened to " repeal " the entire law by dissent unless the Assembly repeals
the portions to which he objects. The threat does not appear to have
been carried out. See Archives of Maryland; XXXI, 57.]

No. 22 An Act to cut off the Entail of Part of a Tract of Land called
Charley now lying in Charles and Prince Georges County's and
to Entail Lands of equal Value in lieu thereof.

Whereas William Wells of Ann Arundel County and Rebecca his
Wife have by their Petition to this General Assembly set forth
That a certain William Marshall late of Prince Georges County
deceased (Father to the Petitioner Rebecca) did by his last Will
and Testament in writing duly executed and recorded Devise Part
of a Certain Tract of Land called Charley now laying Part thereof

Liber H. S.
No. I

in Charles County and Part in Prince Georges County Containing
One hundred and thirty Acres to her the said Rebecca and the Heirs
of her Body lawfully begotten and in default of such Heirs then
to his son Thomas Marshall and his Heirs for ever as in the said
Will is expressed and that he the said William Wells in Right of
his wife Rebecca by virtue of the Devise aforesaid stands seized
and Possessed of the said Part of the Tract of Land called Charley.
And Whereas the said William Wells by his said Petition hath
further set forth that he is seized in Fee of and in a Tract or Parcel
of Land containing One hundred four Acres and an half Acre being
one moiety or Part of a Tract of Land called Evans's Purchase
laying in Ann Arundel County aforesaid purchased by him the
aforesaid William Wells from a certain Elizabeth [Faudrie?] of
Ann Arundel County, and that he is also Seized in Fee of and in a
Tract or Parcel of Land containing Fifty Acres laying in Ann
Arundel County aforesaid being Part of a Tract of Land called Trent
purchased by him the said William Wells from a certain Henry
Child of Ann Arundel County aforesaid, and that the said Land
called Charley being Part in Charles County and Part in Prince
Georges County aforesaid and being very Hilly and Stoney and
what is level thereof and under the Hills is in the greatest Part wet
and low Ground that it is thereby unfit for any number of Hands
to work and very incommodious to the said Petitioners and un-
profitable. And that the said One hundred four Acres and an half
Acre the moiety or Part of the Tract of Land called Evans's Pur-
chase laying in Ann Arundel County aforesaid and the said Fifty
Acres of Land part of the Tract of Land called Trent laying in Ann
Arundel County aforesaid are of equal Value with the One hundred
and thirty Acres of Land part of the Tract of Land called Charley.
And Whereas the said William Wells and Rebecca his wife by their
said Petition have prayed that the One hundred and thirty Acres
Part of the said Tract of Land called Charley now the Entailed
Estate of the said William Wells and Rebecca his wife may not be

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