Acts. 295

shall convey the said Land to the aforesaid John Semple or any
other Person by Virtue of this Act the Money paid or which ought
to be paid to them or any or either of them before or at the Time of
such Conveyance for the same Conveyance shall be Assets of the said
John Colvill in the Hands of the aforesaid Frances Colvill, George
Washington and John West junior or such of them as shall execute
such Conveyance in such Manner as the same would have been
Assets in the Hands of the aforesaid Thomas Colvill, had he received
the same in his Lifetime for the Sale and Conveyance of the said
Land.

Liber R. G.
I77i

By the Lower House of
Assembly Nov.^r 23.^d 1771.
Read & assented to.
Signed by Order
Jn.^o 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 23.^d 1771
Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant

No. 33 An Act for amending and declaring the Law in the Cases therein
mentioned.

Whereas by the Act entitled an Act causing Grand and Petit
Jurors to come to the Provincial and County Courts and ascertaining
their Allowances it is among other Things provided that the Jurors
to be summoned by Virtue of that Act to the Provincial and County
Courts shall be of the best & most understanding Freeholders of their
several and respective Counties and that no Person having any Mat-
ter of Fact depending for Trial in any Court whatsoever shall be
admitted as a qualified Juror between Party and Party during the
Sitting of such Court that such Matter of Fact shall be or shall be
expected to be tried in.

[Preamble.]

Be it enacted and declared 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 no Verdict of a Jury shall hereafter be
set aside nor Judgment on any Verdict staid arrested or reversed by
Reason that any Juror who tried the Cause was not a Freeholder or
by Reason that any such Juror had a Matter of Fact depending for
Trial as aforesaid.

[No Verdict
to be set
aside, &c. on
Account of a
Juror's not
being a Free-
holder, &c.]

Provided nevertheless that it shall & may be lawful to and for
the Plaintiff or Defendant in any Cause to be tried in any of the
said Courts to challenge any Juror for Want of Freehold or by
Reason that such Juror hath a Matter of Fact depending for Trial

[Proviso.]

as aforesaid & that the Want of Freehold or the having a Matter of
Fact depending for Trial as aforesaid shall be held and allowed to
be a good Cause of Challenge to any such Juror.

p. 161