442 Assembly Proceedings, November 5-21, 1770.

Liber R. G.
1770

called Addition to Partnership and the other Adams Folly all Lying
to the Eastward of the line lately run to divide the Province of
Maryland from Pensylvania That the same Thomas Light foot Wil-
liam Lightfoot Abraham Mitchell Walter Franklin & Samuel Frank-
lin, ever since the Execution of the Deed aforesaid have been and
now are in the Actual and sole Possession of the said Lands under
and by Virtue of the said Deed and have made many Valuable im-
provements thereon and that the aforesaid Thomas Collier hath
since Removed into one of the Carolina's,

And Whereas it has been represented to this General Assembly
that the aforesaid Deed hath not been recorded and enrolled agree-
able to an Act of Assembly of this Province in such case made and
Provided and that the same Thomas Lightfoot, William Lightfoot,
Abraham Mitchell Walter Franklin and Samuel Franklin are appre-

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hensive their title to the same Lands is therefore Defective by
Reason whereof it is prayed that an Act may pass to remedy such
defect in the said Conveyance
Be it therefore enacted by the right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same That the said Deed of Bargain and Sale from
the aforesaid Thomas Collier to the same Thomas Lightfoot William
Lightfoot Abraham Mitchell Walter Franklin and Samuel Franklin
and their heirs shall to all intents and Purposes be deemed and Taken
to be effectual in the Law to Convey the Estate and interest of the
aforesaid Thomas Collier of in and to the Lands therein mentioned
agreeable to the true intent and meaning of the said Deed any Omis-
sion of Recording and Enrolling the same Deed according to the
Directions of an Act of Assembly of this Province to the contrary
in any wise notwithstanding

Provided the said Deed be enrolled among the Land Records of
Worcester County aforesaid by the Clerk of that County who is
hereby Authorized and required to enroll the same upon the Applica-
tion of the same Thomas Lightfoot William Lightfoot Abraham
Mitchell, Walter Franklin and Samuel Franklin or either of them
within Six Months from and immediately after the end of the
present session of Assembly

By the Lower House of
Assembly 14. ^th Novr 1770
Read & assented to
Signed by Order
Jn^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho

On behalf of the right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I Will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden

By the Upper House of
Assembly 14^th November
1770 Read and Assented
to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

the great seal in
wax appendant