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not be sufficient to keep down the Interest and defray the expenses of
Necessary repairs but the Burthen thereon will be daily increasing
and tho' now Perhaps the Mortgaged Premises if acquitted of the
said Equity of Redemption sell for something more than the Mort-
gage Money and Interest Yet before the said Infants come of Age
the same will not be of as great Value That the said John Paca
junior by his last Will and Testament aforesaid impowered and
Authorized the aforesaid Petitioners to Sell and dispose of the said
Mortgaged Premises (amongst other Lands) for the Payment of
his Debts and other Uses of his Will that some of the Devisees
aforesaid to wit the aforesaid William Larkin and James being
Infants the said Petitioners must be at very great Incertainty in Pro-
cureing Justice in the Ordinary Course of Law or Equity and tho'
could the said Lands be immediately Sold they might be of some
Aid to the said Petitioners Testators Estate the claim will not only
be enlarged Whilst a regular Proceeding is carrying on by Interest
and expences but the Premisses must Necessarily become less Val-
uable from the decaying Scituation of the Houses And Whereas it
Appears to this General Assembly that the Material Facts set forth
in the said Petition are true and that the said Petitioners are Execu-
tors of the said John Paca Junior and that the said Moses Hill has

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since the said Petition was preferred married the said Margaret
Paca one of the Petitioners and the said Petitioners have prayed
relief in the Premisses It is therefore prayed that it may be enacted
And be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of
the same That the said John Paca Robert Adair Moses Hill and
Margaret Hill and the Survivors and Survivor of them shall be
and are by Virtue of this Act impowered to set up and expose to
Sale at Publick Vendue to the highest bidder the said two lotts of
Ground and Premisses with the Appurtenances so as aforesaid Mort-
gaged by the said William Hammond to the aforesaid Alexander
Lawson and by him Assigned as aforesaid to the aforesaid John
Paca junior and the Equity of Redemption of in and to the said
Mortgaged Premisses and also set up and expose to Sale at a Pub-
lick Vendue to the highest bidder the said other Lands of the said
William Hammond in his Petition aforesaid mentioned to wit Cole's
Addition containing Sixty seven Acres and the said William Ham-
mond's Moiety of Cromwells Chance the whole Tract Containing
two hundred and forty eight Acres three Months notice of the said
Sale and the time and place of such Vendue being first given in the
Maryland and Pensylvania Gazettes and the said two lotts of Ground
the said Tract of Land called Cole's Addition and the said William
Hammonds Moiety of the said Tract of Land called Cromwell's
Chance and each and every of them and every part of them and

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