194 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23, 1773.

Liber R. G.
1773

Leases from Time to Time shall forever in like Manner renew unto
the said Original Lessees their Assigns and all Persons claiming

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by from or under the said Original Lessees on the same Terms and
Conditions and with a reservation of Payment of the same yearly
Rent and on Payment of one Years Rent as a Fine on each renew-
ment as are contained in the said Act and Leases to the said original
Lesses anything to the Contrary hereof notwithstanding

By the Lower House of
Assembly Nov. 30.^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho..

6 1/2 Sides

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

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant

:By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 30^th 1773
Read and assented to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho

No. 3

An Act for Quieting Sundry the Inhabitants of Frederick County
in their Possessions

[Preamble.]

Whereas it appears to this General Assembly that Sundry the
Inhabitants of Frederick County have made Purchases of Lands
and obtained Conveyances for the same which Conveyances were
acknowledged before Thomas Prather a Magistrate of the County
only and are therefore defective —

[Convey-
ances ac-
knowledged
before
Thomas
Prather to
be valid.]

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable 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 Conveyances aforesaid and every of them acknowledged as afore-
said before Thomas Prather only shall be as valid and effectual in
Law as if the same had been acknowledged before a Justice of the
Provincial Court or two Justices of the County Court any Law to
the Contrary thereof notwithstanding

By the Lower House of
Assembly Nov 30 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett
Clk. Lo. Ho

21 1/2 Sides

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

The great Seal
in Wax Appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov 30^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U. Scott Cl. Up. Ho

No. 4

An Act to enable Martha Roundell and others to make Partition of
the Land therein mentioned
Whereas the said Martha Roundell, Sarah Cox, Henry Brooke
and Mary his Wife and Benjamin Skinner and Henrietta his
Wife by their humble Petition to this present General Assembly did
set forth that they the said Martha Sarah Mary and Henrietta were
Daughters and Coheirs of Mary Smith late of Prince Georges

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County Widow deceased and as such Entitled to one Moiety or half