382 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2— Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

Town, in Somerset County, having performed all Requisites, by the
said Act required, should be invested with a pure, absolute, and inde-
feazible Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, of, in, and to such Lots,
or Lot, or Part of a Lot, with the "Appurtenances," in which said
recited Act, there is not any saving Clause to preserve the Quit-Rents
of the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of this Province,
which shall issue and become due out of the said Lots or Lot, or
Part of a Lot, or which would or might have issued and became
due out of the same, if the said Act had never been made.
And whereas also, by the said recited Act, a Doubt may hereafter
arise whether the Right of Escheat, which may have happened since
the aforesaid Fifteenth Day of May, One Thousand Seven Hundred
Fifty and One, or which at any Time hereafter may arise to the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, his Heirs or Successors, in
the said Lots, or any of them, or which would or might have arisen
if the said recited Acthad never been made, is not by the said Act
extinguished.

[The said
Act not to
bar the Lord
Proprietary
from his
Quit-Rents
in Princess-
Anne-
Town.]

p. 126

Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That the said Act entituled, An Act to aid the Title of Pur-
chasers of Lots, in Princess-Anne-Town, in Somerset County, or any
Clause or Matter therein contained, shall not bar, or be construed to
bar, or any Ways prejudice, the Right of the Lord Proprietary, his
Heirs or Successors, to the Quit-Rents, which shall issue and grow
due out of any of the said Lots, or Part of any Lot, in the said
Town, or which has at any Time heretofore since the aforesaid
Fifteenth Day of May, Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Fifty One, issued or grown due, or which would or might have
issued, or grown due, if the said last mentioned Act had never been
made.

[Not to bar
the Right of
Escheat.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That noth-
ing in the above last recited Act contained, shall bar or any Ways
prejudice, the Right of Escheat, which may have arisen since the
aforesaid Fifteenth Day of May, One Thousand Seven Hundred
Fifty and One, or which may hereafter arise to the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary, his Heirs or Successors, of, in, or to, any of
the said Lots, or Part of any of the said Lots; any Clause, Matter, or
Thing, in the said recited Act, to the contrary notwithstanding.

17.^th November 1753
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
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

Hor.° Sharpe
the great seal in
Wax Appendant

17 Novem.^r 1753
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho.