546 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

Liber H. S.
No. I
[Sheriffs to
observe the
Directions
of the
Committee.]

And be it further Enacted, That the several and respective Sheriffs
aforesaid shall, and are hereby obliged to collect and levy so much
of the aforesaid Sums of Money and Tobacco as to them respectively,
by the Committee aforesaid, shall be appointed, and the same to pay
to the several Persons, and in such Proportion, as by the said Com-
mittee, or the major Part of them, shall be directed.

[To be
collected in
the same
Manner as
the County
Levies.]
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And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said Sums of Money and Tobacco shall and may be collected and
levied by Way of Execution, in such Manner as the County Levies
are usually collected. Always saving to the good People of this
Province their Right in discharging the Tobacco-Assessments in
Current Money, as by the Laws of this Province are provided.

22d May 1756 On behalf of the Right 22d May 1756
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
MMacnemara Cl lo ho. JRoss Cl Up Ho

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No. 17

An Act to vest certain Intailed Lands therein mentioned in the
Female heirs of Leonard Hollyday Gentlemen in fee Simple.

Whereas Thomas Hollyday and Leonard Hollyday Gen.^t by their
Humble Petition to this Present General Assembly did set fourth
That their Father Leonard Hollyday of Prince Georges County Gen.^t
in the year Seventeen hundred and forty one Dyed Seized of two
Tracts of Land lying in Calvert County the one called Buzzard
Island and the other the addition to Buzzard Island the whole
Containing Seven hundred fifty one Acres and That by his Last
will and Testament he Devised the same to his Second Son Leonard
Hollyday one of the Petitioners and to his male heirs and for want
of such Issue to his Eldest Son Thomas Hollyday and his male heirs
That Leonard Hollyday had only female heirs who could not Inherit
the said Land after his Death whereby it would descend to his Eldest
Brother Thomas who by letter had Signified his consent and is Party
to the said Petition That the said Land was Unimproved at the Time
of the Death of their Father since which it had Cost the Present
possessor Leonard Hollyday who Lives thereon a Considerable Sum

of money to Improve the Same that the Said Land had been in Pos-
session of the Father of the Petitioners ever since the year Sixteen
hundred & Eighty five and never had been claimed by any other
Person Wherefore they Prayed that an Act of Assembly might pass

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to Vest an Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple in the Said Land
called Buzzard Island and the addition to Buzzard Island in the
female heirs of the said Leonard Hollyday in Case he should have