ACTS OF THE ASSEMBLY PASSED IN
MAY 1766

Liber H. S.
No. 1
1766
p. 593

At a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis
on Friday the ninth Day of May in the sixteenth Year of the
Dominion of the Right Honourable Frederick Absolute Lord and
Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron
of Baltimore and so forth Anno Domini 1766 and ending the twenty
seventh Day of the same Month following.
The following Laws were enacted and assented to by his Excellency
Horatio Sharpe Esquire Governor

No. 1

An Act continuing an Act entituled an Act to prevent disabled and
Superanuated Slaves being Set free, or the Manumission of Slaves
by any last Will or Testament

[The Act of
1752, Ch. 1,
Continued 20
years &c]

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 an Act of Assembly of this Province entituled, an
Act to prevent disabled and Superannuated Slaves being set free
Or the Manumission of Slaves, by any last Will or Testament, made
at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis
the third day of June One thousand Seven hundred and Fifty two,
be and is hereby Continued and Shall remain and be in full Force
for and during the Term of Twenty Years and unto the end of the
next Session of Assembly which Shall happen after the Expiration
of the said Twenty Years

May 27:^th 1766
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 Pro-
prietary of this Province,
I will this be a Law
Hor:^o Sharpe

May 27:^th 1766
Read and Assented to
By the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
U Scott Cl. Up: Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax Appendant

No. 2

An Act to Vest the Title of and in a certain Lott or parcell of
Land in John Jeremiah Myar

[A Private
Act]

Whereas it Appears to this General Assembly that a Contract
was made and entered into on the fourteenth day of April Anno
Domini Seventeen hundred and Sixty two between John Jeremiah

p. 594

Myar of Frederick Town in Frederick County Merchant and Daniel
Davis of the Same Place Blacksmith purporting that the said Daniel
Davis Should convey unto the same John Jeremiah Myar a good
sure indefeazable Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple of in and unto