Acts. 253

Writ in any such Recovery was not Tenant of the Freehold at
the time of Judgment rendered or any other Defect in drawing
suffering or executing any of the said Recoveries Provided that
some one or more of the Parties to such Recovery at the time of
such Judgment was Actual Tenant of the Freehold in the Manors
Lands Tenements or Hereditaments recovered and the persons
or some of them Joining in such recovery had a Sufficient Estate
and power to suffer the same

Liber H. S.
No. 1

[Proviso]

And be it Enacted that where any person or persons heretofore
gaining an Estate in fee Simple or who shall hereafter gain an
Estate in fee Simple in any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments
within this Province by or under any common Recovery Suffered
or hereafter to be Suffered hath or have conveyed away or shall here-
after convey away such Lands Tenements or Hereditaments before
the Execution of such Recoveries or before any Entry made
therein by the Recoverer such Conveyances shall be as good and
Available to barr the Vendors and their heirs and all persons
Claiming by from or under them as if the said Recoveries had been

[Persons
gaining Fee-
Simple Es-
states under
Common
Recovery
&c]

executed or the Recoveries therein had entered into the said Lands
Tenements or Hereditaments before such Conveyance or Conveyances
thereof made any Law to the Contrary thereof Notwithstanding

p. 646

5.^th Dec.^r 1766
Read and Assented to
by the Lower house of
Assembly
Signed p Order
MMacnemara ClLoho

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Hor,,^o Sharpe

Dec.^r 6.^th 1766
Read and Assented to
By the Upper house of
Assembly
Signed by Order
UScott Cl. Up. Ho.

the Great Seal
in Wax Append^t

No. 22 An Act to Remove a Nusance in Baltimore Town in Baltimore
County and for other Purposes therein mentioned

Whereas the Inhabitants of Baltimore Town in Baltimore County
have by their humble Petition to this General Assembly set forth
that a Large Miery Marsh Adjoining the said Town is by the
Noxious Vapours and putrid Effluvia arising therefrom very preju-
dicial to the health of its Inhabitants and that the proprietors of the
said Marsh have by their perverseness or Dilatoriness hitherto re-
fused or neglected to remove the said Nusance and that the said
Nusance cannot be removed otherwise than by Changing the surface
of the said Marsh into firm and dry ground And as the Allegations
of the said petitioners appear to this General Assembly to be True

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary 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 Thomas Harrison, Alexander Lawson

[Preamble]