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No. 2 An Act to explain an Act relating to Leases made by the Rector
Vestrymen and Church wardens of Saint Annes Parish.
Whereas by an Act of Assembly made and passed at a Session of
Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis on the sixteenth
Day of May one thousand seven hundred and forty seven entitled
"An Act repealing an Act of Assembly entitled an Act to en-
able the Rector Vestrymen and Church wardens for the Time
being of Saint Annes Parish in Ann Arundel County to Lease certain
Lots in the City of Annapolis in Manner and to the Uses therein
mentioned and to enable the said rector Vestrymen and Church-
wardens to Lease certain Lots of Land within the said City of An-
napolis" Power was given to the said rector Vestrymen and
Churchwardens to lease the Lots in the said City numbered respec-
tively fifty nine sixty and sixty one for any Term not exceed-
ing sixty three Years and after the Expiration of the said
Term to grant new Leases for the Term of twenty one Years
or three Lives. And whereas it is represented unto this Gen-
eral Assembly that since the passing the said Act Leases have
been granted by the rector Vestrymen and Churchwardens of
the said Parish for the said Lots of Land for the Term of sixty
three Years to several Persons who have made very considerable
and valuable Improvements on Part of the said Lots and would
build on and improve the residue but from Doubts arising whether
the original Lessees and Improvers of the said Lots or those claim-
ing under them will be entitled to a Preference when the Time shall
arrive for the renewment of the said Leases And whereas it appears
to this General Assembly that it would greatly conduce to the Im-
provement of the said Lots and be agreeable to the Design and
Intention of the said Act and consistent with Equity if a Prefer-
ence were expressly given to the original Lessees and Improvers of
the said Lots and their Assigns to renew the Leases for the said
Lots after the Expiration of the said Term of sixty three Years
for the further Term of twenty one Years or three Lives and in like
Manner from Time to Time on the same Terms and Conditions
and reservation of Rent and Fine on renewment as are contained
in the said Act and Leases to the said Original Lessees Be it there-
fore Enacted by the right Honorable the Lord Proprietary by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Governor and the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same that the
Rector Vestrymen and Churchwardens of the said Parish for the
Time being have full Power and Authority and they are hereby
directed and required after the Expiration of the said Term of sixty
three Years expressed in the Lease to the Original Lessees of the
said Lotts to grant new Leases thereof unto the said Original Lessees
or their Assigns or such as may claim by from or under them for
the further Term of twenty one Years or three Lives and the same
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