Acts. 283

No. 12 A Supplementary Act to the Act intituled an Act for Limitation of
certain Action for avoiding Suits at Law.
Whereas the Act intituled an Act for Limitation of Certain Actions
for avoiding Suits at Law, hath provided that in case any Person
or Persons whatsoever shall absent themselves out of this Province
after any Debt contracted He she or they so absenting themselves

Liber H. S.
No. 1
p. 550

shall have no Benefit by the Limitation or Restriction in the said
Act Specified but hath made no provision in the Case wherein the
Person or Persons liable to the Same hath or have been is are or
may be absent out of the Province at the time when any Cause of
Action may have arisen or accrued or Shall or may arise or accrue
against him her or them tho the said Case falling under the same
Reason ought to have the same Remedy

[Preamble,
reciting Part
of 1715, ch.
23]

Be it therefore 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 if any Person or Persons liable or that
hath or have been or shall or may be liable to any Action or that
hath or have been or shall or may be absent out of this Province
at the Time when the Cause of Action hath Arisen or accrued or
shall or may arise or accrue against him her or them He she or
They, shall have or receive no Benefit or Advantage of or from the
said recited Act,

[Persons, ab-
sent, &c, to
receive no
advantage]

Provided that the Person or Persons that Hath have or Hath or
have had or that shall or may have Such Cause of Action as afore-
said shall commence or Prosecute the same after the presence in this
Province of the Person or Persons liable thereto within the Time or
Times limited in and by the said recited Act.

[Proviso]

5.^th Dec..^r 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

23^d Nov.^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. 13
Ex.^d

An Act to vest the Title of and in Certain Lands in John Hammond
Esquire and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Whereas Ann Ogle of Annapolis Widow of Samuel Ogle Esquire
Deceased. Benjamin Tasker Esquire and John Hammond Esquire
have by their petition to this present General Assembly Set forth
"that the said Samuel Ogle died Seized in fee of and in two Several
Tracts of Land in Ann Arundel County called or known by the
Names of Hickory Ridge and Green Land; the former containing
two hundred and Sixty two Acres more or less, the latter one
hundred Acres more or less : That Benjamin Ogle Son and Heir

[Private
Act]