Acts. 207

and untill the End of the next Session of Assembly which shall
happen thereafter.

Liber R. G.
1773

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 14.^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
John Duckett
Clk. Lo: Ho:

25 Sides

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I Will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden

The great Seal
in wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.^r 14.^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U. Scott Clk. Up. Ho

No. 8 An Act to confirm a Lease made by Thomas Harrison of Baltimore
County for Part of a Lot of Land therein mentioned to the Com-
missioners of Baltimore Town and their Successors.

p. 247

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly that the In-
habitants of the said Town have obtained a Lease from a Certain
Thomas Harrison to William Lyon, Nicholas Ruxton Gay, John
Moale and Andrew Buchanan to and in the Name of a Majority
of the Commissioners of the said Town bearing Date the fourth
Day of June seventeen hundred and sixty three for Part of a Lot
of Land in the said Town distinguished in the Platt thereof by the
Number seventy one for and during the Term of ninety Nine Years
under the Yearly Rent of Eight Pounds Sterling Money with a
Covenant therein contained on the part of the said Thomas Har-
rison for the Renewment of the said Lease at the Expiration of the
said Term and further renewable forever; on which said Part of
the Lot aforesaid the said Inhabitants have built and erected a
large and convenient Building calculated for a Market House and
other Public Uses and it is prayed that an Act of Assembly may be
passed for confirming the said Lease and vesting the Estate therein
limited in the Commissioners of the said Town and their Successors
for the Use and Benefit of the said Town —

[Preamble.]

Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of the Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of
the same, That the said Lease as made by the said Thomas Harrison
and every Clause Matter and thing therein contained shall be and
hereby is declared good and sufficient in Law and that the Com-
missioners of Baltimore Town and their Successors shall and may
hold possess and enjoy the said demised part of the Lot of Land
aforesaid and the Estate therein limited to and for the Use and
Benefit of the said Town in as full and ample manner as if they the

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Lease made
by Thomas
Harrison
declared
good, and
the Commis-
sioners of
Baltimore-
Town to
hold the
Land as
fully as if
they had
been a Body
politic.