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

Liber R. G.

1773

County as well of the Taxable Inhabitants of that Part of Queen
Anns County which is included in Caroline County as of Queen
Anns County and collected accounted for and applied in such Manner
as the said Public and County Levy would have been collected ac-
counted for and applied had this Act never been made.

[Delegates
for Dor-
chester
County to
retain their
Seats, and
serve for
the Counties
in which
they reside.]

And be it enacted that the several Delegates for Dorchester County
shall retain their Seats and that such of them as are residents in
Dorchester County after the Division aforesaid shall be Deemed and
taken as Delegates for that County and such of them as are Residents
in Caroline County shall be deemed and taken Delegates for that
County and Writs of Election shall issue to make up the Number
of Delegates wanted in either County to compleat the Usual and com-
mon County Representation —

[Caroline
County
Courts,
when to be
held]

And be it enacted that the County Courts of Caroline County
shall begin and be held on the third Tuesdays of the same Months in
which Other County Courts of this Province are held Yearly and
shall have equal Power and Jurisdiction with any County Court in
this Province.

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

26 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 Dec.^r 15.^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U. Scott Clk. Up. Ho:

No. 11

p. 255
[A private
act]

An Act for the Sale of Lands late the Property of Caleb Dorsey
of Ann Arundel County deceased for Payment of Legacies.
Whereas Charles Ridgely and Rebecca his Wife, Michael Pue

and Mary his Wife, William Goodwin and Milcah his Wife, William
Buchanan & Peggy his Wife, Samuel Dorsey and Eleanor Dorsey,
by their humble Petition to this General Assembly have set forth
That a certain Caleb Dorsey late of Ann Arundel County Iron
Master deceased did by his last Will and Testament bearing Date on
the fourteenth Day of March in the Year of our Lord Seventeen
hundred and Seventy two amongst other Things give and bequeath
to all the aforesaid Petitioners except Samuel Dorsey Considerable
Pecuniary Legacies That the said Caleb Dorsey by his said Will
did order and direct in Case his Personal Estate should not be suffi-
cient to pay the abovementioned Legacies without Prejudice or Detri-
ment to the Management working and carrying on to Advantage
the Furnace called Elk Ridge Furnace and the Forge called Dorseys
Forge, that his Land called Caleb Delight enlarged, also his Land
called Timber Ridge, also his part of the Land called the Mill Frog
and also his Part of the Furnace and Works at Curtis Creek should