436 Assembly Proceedings, November 5-21, 1770.

Liber R. G.
1770

their Legal Representatives or in such manner as might seem to
the General Assembly most Consistent with the Equitable intention
of the Original Devise And as all the facts and Allegations in the
said Petition Contained were fully made appear to be true but before
a Bill coud be got through the Parliamentary Forms there was a
Prorogation of the General Assembly
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 the aforesaid Edward Tilghman, Solomon
Wright, Mary Wright Francis Barnes Jun.^r Philemon Murphy James
Coursey Thomas Coursey, John Coursey, Henry Coursey and Daniel
Kellum or anyone or more of them (who may or shall from time
to time by writing under the Hands and Seals of the others or the

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Major part of them and the Survivors of them be impowered to act
and who is and are hereby fully to all intents and Purposes within
the Purview of this Act enabled under such Power to act) is and are
hereby fully Authorized and impowered to bargain with and sell
convey and Confirm unto any person or Persons who shall Offer
to purchase the same their Heirs and Assigns forever all and every
the aforesaid tracts of Land or any part thereof so as aforesaid by
the afd Vincent Lowe devised to be sold and now remaining unsold
by either the said Executors the said William and Elizabeth or the
said Elizabeth after the Death of the said William and the Nett
Produce on the Sales thereof or any part thereof (retaining the
Necessary Expences and Reasonable Charges arising and Accruing
on the Obtention of this Act and Every Proceeding relative to the
Recovery and sale of the said Lands or any part thereof or any
other Proceeding any way relative to the Execution of their power
or trust under this Act) the person or Persons who shall be so as
aforesaid impowered to act and who under such Power shall Act is
and are hereby Directed and required to apply first to the Payment
of the Just Debts of the aforesaid Vincent Lowe now remaining
unpayd if any there be and the Remainder to the use and behoof of
the afd Edward Tilghman Solomon Wright Mary Wright Francis
Barnes jun.^r, Philemon Murphy, James Coursey, Thomas Coursey,
John Coursey, Henry Coursey and Daniel Kellum in Proportion to
their Several and Respective rights under the Bequest before men-
tioned from the aforesaid Elizabeth Coursey and of their Legal
Representatives and a just and fair account of this or their Proceed-
ings in the [Premises to the persons impowering them as aforesaid
as soon as may be to render
Provided always that nothing in this Act contained shall ex-
tend to bar the Heir at Law of the aforesaid Vincent Lowe deced
from pursuing his right or title (if any he hath or shall have to the
prem[is]es or any part thereof) within five Years after the end of
this Session of Assembly