Acts. 271

such Suit or Suits would have been discontinued if the same had been
depending at the Time of Such Death or shall die before the said
Next March Court such Actions shall not be taken to be within, but
are hereby excepted out of the Provisions of this Act

Liber H. S.

No. 1

Provided also that nothing in this Act shall extend or be con-
strued or charge or make liable the Bail in any Action so dis-
continued or the Bail or sureties bound by Recognizance for the ap-
pearance of any Person or Persons criminally prosecuted at the said
March Court one Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty four and on
which Recognizance no Default was then entered but such Bail and
Sureties shall be in the same State and condition as if this Act had
never been made

[Proviso in
regard to
Bail]

And be it further enacted that in Case where the said Actions so
discontinued or any of them were brought and prosecuted within
the Time limitted by Law and the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Defendant
or Defendants hath or have died since such Discontinuance or shall
die before the said next march Court to be held for the said County
it shall and may be Lawfull for the said Plaintiff or Plaintiffs his
her or their Executors or Administrators to bring his her or their
said Action or Actions anew against the said Defendant or De-
fendants his her or their Executors or Administrators respectively
as the Case may require and to prosecute the same with Effect and
shall not be barred in such Action or Actions by any Act of Limita-
tion provided such new Action or Actions shall be commenced on
or before the first Day of August which shall be in the year of our
Lord one Thousand seven hundred and Sixty Six.

[In case of
Discontinu-
ance or
Abatement,
Plaintiffs, or
their Execu-
tors, &c. may
bring Ac-
tions anew]

Dec.^r 4.^th 1765
Read and Assented to
By the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
MMacnemara Cl: Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I Will this be a Law
Hor:^o Sharpe

5.^th Dec.^r 1765
Read and Assented to
By the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed by Order
UScott Cl: Up: Ho

The great Seal
in Wax Appendant

No. 9 An Act to impower Mary Covington Administratrix of Philip Cov-
ington late of Somerset County deceased to Sell and dispose of
the Lands of the said Philip for the Purposes therein mentioned
Whereas the said Mary Covington by her humble Petition to this
general Assembly hath Set forth that the said Philip Covington died
on or about the first day of September in the year of our Lord God
seventeen hundred and Sixty three leaving Philip his Eldest Son at
That Time about twelve years of age, and Rebecca about Eight years
of Age, Levin about five years of Age, and Nehemiah about two
years Of Age being also the Children of the said Mary possessed of a
Personal Estate amounting to the sum of one hundred and eighty
four Pounds and five Pence Current Money and siezed in fee Simple

[Private
Act]
p. 540