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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 17
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on immediate Payment (in Case Payment shall be made in Money)
any larger Fee than after the Rate of twelve Shillings and Six
Pence Common Current Money for One hundred Pounds of Tobacco
under the Pain of my Displeasure. And to the Intent that all Persons
concerned may have due Notice thereof I do strictly charge and
require the Sheriff of the City of Annapolis to make this my Procla-
mation publick in the said City as he will answer the contrary at his
Peril Given at the City of Annapolis this 26.th Day of November in
the twentieth Year of his Lordship's Dominion Anno Domini 1770
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Con.
Rob.t Eden [The Great Seal]
M.r Gresham appeared in the House
Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer Esq.r from the Upper House
delivers to M.r Speaker a Petition of Frances Colvill, George Wash-
ington, and John West, jun.r Executors of Thomas Colvill, late of
Fairfax County, in Virginia, and John Semple, Merchant; setting
forth, that a certain John Colvill, late of Fairfax County, aforesaid,
being possessed of a Tract of Land in Frederick County in the Prov-
ince of Maryland called Merryland did by his last Will and Testa-
ment impower his Brother, Thomas Colvill one of his Executors, to
sell the said Land to pay his Debts. That the said Thomas Colvill
did sell the said Land unto John Semple one of the Petitioners, on
the 8.th Day of May 1765 for £2,500 Sterling, and took the said
Semple's Bond for the Payment thereof. That John Colvill died
considerably in Debt to sundry Persons, and among others owed his
Brother Thomas Colvill upwards of £800 Sterling. That the said
Thomas at his Death was indebted several Sums of Money and be-
queathed sundry Legacies which cannot be paid unless the Executors
can receive the Debt due from John Colvill's Estate: And therefore
praying the House that a Law may pass enabling the Executors of
Thomas Colvill or the Survivors of them to make sufficient Deeds
to the said John Semple or his Assigns for the said Lands on his or
their paying such Sum as shall appear to be due on the said Bond;
or in Case the Money should not be paid within a short Space of
Time that Thomas Colvill's Executors may be by Law enabled to
sell the said Lands to the highest Bidder so as the Wills of John and
Thomas Colvill may be complied with.
Ordered, That William Steuart Clerk of the Land Office imme-
diately attend at the Bar, and produce to this House the Regulation
lately given in Charge to the Registers of the said Office respecting
the Fees thereof as mentioned in the Proclamation of the 26.th
November 1770
Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do forthwith deliver to the
Serjeant at Arms attending this House a Copy of the above Order.
Ordered, That the Serjeant at Arms attending this House do
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