Acts. 257

And be it further enacted that after the Old Court House afore-
said shall be pulled down the Justices of the said County shall &
may contract & agree for a convenient Place within the said Town
of Cambridge to hold the Courts of the said County & the said
Courts shall be held at such Place untill the new Court House shall
be built compleated & finished & the Charge & Expence of holding
the Courts at such Place shall be defrayed by the said County & as-
sessed with the public & County Levy.

Liber R. G.
1771
[Justices to
agree for a
Place to hold
County
Courts, &c.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly, Nov.^r 9.^th 1771.
Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
Jn.° Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I Will this be a Law.
Rob.^t Eden.

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 9.^th 1771.
Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant

No. 17 An Act to impower Frank Leeke & George Digges Administrators
of Charles Digges late of Prince Georges County deceased with
the last Will of the same Charles to their Letters of Administra-
tion annexed, to sell a Lot of Ground of the same Charles situate
& being in the Town of Upper Marlborough in Prince Georges
County aforesaid for the Payment of the Debts of the said
Charles Digges.

Whereas it appears to this General Assembly upon the Petition of
Frank Leeke & George Digges that Charles Digges late of Prince
Georges County died seized in Fee of a Lot of Ground in the Town
of Upper Marlborough in Prince George's County aforesaid distin-
guished & known by the Number twenty nine in the Platt of the said
Town that a considerable Time before his Purchase & Seizin of the
said Lot of Ground he made his last Will & Testament & devised
all his Estate real & personal to William Digges his Father & ap-
pointed him Executor thereof that the said William Digges re-
nounced the Executorship & that Letters of Administration with
the said Will annexed were granted to the same Frank Leeke &
George Digges who have fully administred the Personal Estate
of the said Charles Digges in the Payment of his Debts, that con-
siderable Debts still remain unpaid as well upon Specialties as simple

[A Private
Act.]

Contracts, that the said Charles Digges neglected to republish his
said Will, That the said Lot of Ground devolved by Descent upon
Thomas Digges Junior as Heir at Law to the said Charles Digges &
that the said Thomas Digges is beyond Sea in Parts unknown & in
all Probability will never return into this Province.

And Whereas the same Frank Leeke & George Digges by their
said Petition hath prayed that a Law might pass to enable them to
sell the said Lott of Ground with the Appurtenances at publick
Vendue to the highest Bidder & to apply the Money arising there-

p. 122