Acts. 287

towards the Payment and Satisfaction of the Debts of the said
George Williams which remain due and unsatisfied & the Residue
thereof after Payment of the Debts as aforesaid according to the
Testament & last Will aforesaid of the said George Williams so
far forth as that provides & where it is silent agreeable to the Act
of Assembly ordering and directing the Distribution of Personal
Estate of Persons dying intestate saving to the Heir at Law of
the said Henry Williams the Liberty of shewing Cause if any he
hath or can shew to the Chancellor of this Province for the Time
being at any Time within twelve Months after his Arrival to Age
why the aforesaid Instrument of Writing should not be aided & the
said Contract specifically performed & upon such Cause shewn to
the Satisfaction of the Chancellor, then & in such Case this Act so far
as it respects the said Instrument of Writing & Contract to be void,
Any Clause Matter or Thing herein to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Saving also to the Heir at Law of the said George Williams the

Liber R. G.
1771

Liberty of shewing Cause it any he hath or can shew to the Chan-
cellor of this Province for the Time being at any Time within
twelve Months after his Arrival to Age why the Contract aforesaid
of the said George Williams with the said Robert Smith & the Con-
tract aforesaid of the said Thomas Bailey or either of them should
not be specifically performed & upon such Cause shewn to the Satis-
faction of the Chancellor then & in such Case this Act so far as it
respects the Contract which the Chancellor shall determine ought not
to be specifically performed shall be void, any Clause Matter or
Thing to the Contrary notwithstanding.

p. 154

By the Lower House of
Assembly, November 22.d

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 22.d 1771

Read & assented to.

Signed by Order,
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant

No. 30 An Act to impower Jane Ridgely Executrix of Nicholas Greenbury
Ridgely late of Ann Arundel County deceased, to convey the Land
therein mentioned.

Whereas the said Jane Ridgely hath by her Petition set forth that
the said Nicholas Greenbury Ridgely her late Husband on or about
the ninth Day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred & seventy one, entered into an Agreement with George
Scott Esquire late of Prince Georges County deceased for the Con-
veyance of a Tract of Land lying in Frederick County called Norway
which said Agreement was reduced to Writing and Signed by the
said Nicholas Greenbury Ridgely and is as follows, Memorandum.
That this Day I Nicholas Greenbury Ridgely of Ann Arundel

[A Private
Act.]