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be sold and the Monies arising therefrom applied in paying off and
fully settling the said Mentioned Legacies and Bequests That the Per-
sonal Estate of the said Caleb Dorsey after the Payment of his Debts
is by no means sufficient to pay off the abovementioned Legacies
and Bequests That the said Caleb Dorsey in the intermediate time
between the making his said Will and his Codicil hereafter men-
tioned did buy and purchase of a certain Alexan[der] Lawson of
Baltimore County his third part of the said Furnace and Works at
Curtis [Creek] that the said Caleb Dorsey by his Codicil bearing Date
on the twenty first Day of May in the Year of our Lord seventeen
hundred and seventy two did among other things give and devise
unto his two Sons Edward Dorsey and the said Samuel Dorsey and
their heirs to be equally divided between them to hold as Tenants
in Common the aforesaid one third Part of said Furnace and Works
at Curtis Creek. That the Furnace Dam was carried away some
Years before the Death of the said Caleb Dorsey that there is no
Iron Ore on the Lands that it has not been used for several Years
owing to the Want of Ore and the Difficulty of securing the Dam
that it would take a large Sum of Money to put the Works in Order to
make Iron and the Yearly Purchase of Ore would be very expensive.
That the said Edward Dorsey is an Infant under the Age of twenty
one Years and therefore unable by Law to make and execute any valid

Liber R. G.

1773

Contract or Sale of and for his undivided sixth part of the said
Furnace and Works at Curtis Creek. That it will greatly conduce
to the Interest and Advantage of the said Edward Dorsey and the
aforesaid Petitioners to sell and dispose of the said Furnace and
Works and the Lands belonging thereto whole and entire or laid off
in Parcels because the Selling them in undivided Parts or Parcels
would greatly diminish the Value of the said Edward Dorsey's Un-
divided Sixth Part and render it totally unprofitable during his
Minority, that no Person would become a Purchaser or if any did a
far less Price would be obtained. And therefore prayed that they
might be enabled to sell and dispose of the said Furnace and Works
and the Lands belonging thereto and Execute a good and effectual
Conveyance or Conveyances of the Same to the Purchaser or Pur-
chasers thereof and his or their Heirs and the several Facts therein
alledged appearing to this General Assembly to be true

Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary 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 said Petitioners or the Survivors of them in Case of
Death be and they are hereby Authorized and empowered to sell and
dispose of the said furnace and Works and the Lands thereto be-
longing whole and entire or laid off in Parcels at Public Sale and to
convey the same in Fee to the Purchaser or Purchasers, Provided
Notice of such Sale be published in the Maryland Gazette for six

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