212 Assembly Proceedings, June 23-July 8, 1755.

Liber H. S.
No.1

paid and satisfied to the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid, and
the Overplus of such Estate, if any there be, and the whole Estate
both real and personal of the said Nathan Brittingham, Thomas
Todd, Jasper Hall, Daniel Wells, Benjamin Berry, Thomas Reyn-
olds, and Edward Dogan, and every of them, so to be assigned and
delivered to the respective Sheriffs as aforesaid, be distributed and
applied towards the Payment of the Imprisonment Fees and Debts,
from them respectively due, in Proportion to such Imprisonment
Fees and Debts, from them respectively due, as aforesaid.
Saving to his most sacred Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, his Heirs and Successors,
and all Bodies politic and corporate, and all others not mentioned in
this Act, their several and respective Rights.

5th July 1755 On behalf of the Right 5^th July 1755
Read and Assented to Honourable the Lord Read and Assented to
by the Lower house of Proprietary of this Prov- by the Upper house of
Assembly ince I will this be a Law Assembly
Signed p Order Hor.^o Sharpe signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho J Ross Cl Up ho

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No. 11

An Act to Impower John Greenif Howard of Baltimore County
Planter to Dock the Entail of two hundred and forty nine Acres
of Land Part of a Tract of Land called Harborough lying in Ann
Arundell and to sell and Convey the same in fee Simple and to
Entail other Lands of Equal Value in Lieu thereof.

p. 199

Whereas the said John Greenif Howard by his humble petition to
this Present General Assembly set forth that John Greenif late of
Baltimore County Deceased being in his Life time legally possessed
with a Tract of Land then in the said County but now in Ann
Arundell County called Harborough which said Tract or parcel of
Land he the said John Greenif by his Testament and last Will
dated the thirtieth day of October seventeen hundred and eight gave
and bequeathed unto his Loving Wife Ruth Grinif during her
Natural Life in Consideration of her Dower of his Real Estate and
after her Decease to the the Child she was then big with to him or
her heirs forever and if the said Child should die without issue
or Heir Lawfully begotten of their Bodies then the said Lands to be
equally divided between John and Edward Dorsey sons of the said
Ruth to them and their Heirs Lawfully Begotten of their Bodies by
which said Last Will and Testament Reference being thereunto had
may more fully appear. That the Child the said Ruth was then Big
with was a Female and Christened by the name of Ruth to whom the
said Tract of Land legally descended after the Death of her Mother
by the said last Will and Testament of the said John Grinif and
the said Ruth the Mother dying the said Ruth the Daughter took